The Wombats in session tonight – recorded on March 25th at Radio 2 during their Sofa Session.
Two years since scoring their debut UK #1 album with “Fix Yourself Not The World”, The Wombats are back. “Oh! The Ocean” trembles with the confessional emotional honesty that makes the Liverpool band’s music as cathartic and relatable as it is catchy and playful, to their continuously growing young fanbase. Their recent singles have received large support from fans, with “Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come” being a Radio 1 playlist track.
Since they emerged as leading lights of the late-‘00s indie rock scene with 2007 debut “A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation”, Murph, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen and drummer Dan Haggis have maintained an incredible upward momentum. 2011’s electro-flecked second album “This Modern Glitch” made them Top Ten regulars; 2015’s third “Glitterbug” saw them embraced by the TikTok generation, with “Greek Tragedy” a viral hit several times over. By 2018’s “Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life” they’d stepped up to arenas and 2022’s “Fix Yourself, Not the World” consolidated their unstoppable rise with the band’s first Number One album, seeing them reach over 2.5 billion streams.
The Wombats released several EPs before working on their first full-length album Girls, Boys and Marsupials (2006), which was released only in Japan and featured some tracks that would reappear on their major-label debut studio album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation (2007). After releasing a self-titled EP in 2008 and touring for three years, they released the studio albums This Modern Glitch (2011), Glitterbug (2015), and Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (2018), all of which received mostly positive reviews. Their fifth album Fix Yourself, Not the World (2022) became their first No. 1 album, topping the UK Albums Chart within a week of release.
On September 27, 2024, The Wombats teased a new single, “Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come,” followed by further singles “Blood on the Hospital Floor,” “My Head Is Not My Friend,” and “Can’t Say No,” over the following months. These singles were released as a lead-in to their sixth studio album, Oh! The Ocean, which was released 14 February 2025.
Press Play – crank it up – go to sleep. . .or not.
