THUMPER consider mental health with their new single ‘Bad Mood’

THUMPER have released their new track ‘Bad Mood’, marking their third single of 2025.

The Dublin alt-rockers are following up on their debut album ‘Delusions of Grandeur’, which was nominated for the Choice Music Prize, with the single exploring themes of mental health and modern technology.

Frontman Oisin Furlong Leahy comments on the single, saying, “I’ve got the moon on my mind, now I’m dreaming in slogans. I once worshiped the sun, now I take my cues from a screen. My phone alarm wakes me, and I’m being sold something within seconds. Am I a relic of the past or a victim of the present? Bad Mood weighs the human experience against the black mirror in my pocket. Boiling the mental health conversation down to a glib soundbite. ‘I’m so sorry but you’ve caught me in a bad mood.’”

Discussing the recording process, Furlong Leahy adds, “The song was recorded with producer Rian Trench in rural Donegal, in a cottage that we converted into a studio. We built a control room in the sitting room, and ran cables into the various bedrooms for guitar amps, even using Alan’s van to house the bass amp outside (as the volume inside the house was making the fillings in our teeth come loose). The double drums were then recorded in Attica Studio in Donegal owned by Tommy McLaughlin (Soak, Villagers, Ailbhe Reddy). There was no signal, no wifi, no distractions – just friends making music together.”