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The group spoke to OfficialCharts.com concerning their win, “Number 1 in the UK! Thank you so much. This is a proper career milestone. Thank you to everyone who helped us make the album; to everyone who bought the album, streamed it. This is pretty surreal. Here’s to making ‘indie landfill’ great again!”

The group’s number one album was released on 14th January 2022 via British label AWAL and has already sired four singles. The LP’s most recent single entitled “Everything I Love Is Going To Die” was released on 15th November 2021,  an accompanied music video was also released with the track. Lead vocalist Matthew Murphy gave the following description for the single, “The song is about the impermanence of life, and with that in mind, the beauty of each passing second, Everything I Love… Key line for me is ‘Icarus was my best friend, so I’m gonna make him proud in the end‘, which I guess is a playful take on living life to its fullest even though the consequences of that might be dire. Certainly not a call to Nihilism, however, but perhaps a call to being present and the joy that can be found in appreciating each moment we find ourselves in.”

The Wombats have achieved chart success with previous releases, with the group having had three consecutive albums placed within the top 5. The Liverpool formed rockers first enjoyed chart success with the album This Modern Glitch, released on 25th April 2011 the album placed at number 3 within the UK charts. The band’s third studio album Glitterbug was released on 13th April 2015 and charted at 5 within the UK. The group’s next chart success, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life, was released on 9th February 2018 and placed at number 3 within the UK album charts.

The group’s debut album also achieved success within the UK charts; A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation was released on 5th November 2007 and reached number 11 within the album charts. With other 300,00-unit sales, the album was certified Platinum within the United Kingdom. The group’s first album included some of the genre and era’s most popular singles, “Backfire at the Disco” was released on 9th April 2007 and “Let’s Dance to Joy Division” was released on 8th October 2007.

Elsewhere within the charts this week, last week’s number one album Dawn FM by The Weeknd has dropped three places to number 4. Despite its fall in the charts, the single has retained the title of the most streamed album of the week. At number two is Equals by Ed Sheeran, the singer’s fifth studio album was released on 29th October 2021 and peaked at number one within the UK album charts.

One of last year’s most successful albums places at number 3 within the album charts, 30 by Adele has retained chart success since its release. At number five is a brand-new entry, Fragments by Bonobo was released on 14th January 2022 via Ninja Tune and is the British artist’s seventh studio album. The release has been named as this week’s most downloaded album; the chart placement is Bonobo’s second top 5 album. The multi-talented musician’s previous release sired his first top 5 album, Migration was released on 13th January 2017 and included the lead single “Kerala”.

The Wombats are set to hit the road in support of their new album this Spring, the band will start the UK leg of their headlining tour in April. After a 9 date tour across the UK, the band will start the tour’s European dates on 29th April 2022 with a performance in Paris. The group will return to the UK for festival appearances at Sheffield’s Tramlines 2022 and Cumbria’s Kendal Calling 2022.

The Wombats UK tour dates:

12/04/2022 – Pryzm – Kingston Upon Thames
14/04 – First Direct Arena – Leeds
15/04 – The O2 – London
16/04 – Motorpoint Arena Cardiff – Cardiff
18/04 – Barrowland – Glasgow
19/04 – Barrowland – Glasgow
21/04 – Liverpool Guild Of Students – Mountford Hall – Liverpool
22/04 – Liverpool Guild Of Students – Mountford Hall – Liverpool
23/04 – Liverpool Guild Of Students – Mountford Hall – Liverpool
22-24/07 – Tramlines 2022 – Sheffield
28-31/07 – Kendal Calling 2022 – Penrith

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Following the announcement of their headlining European tour in May 2022, indie hitmakers The Wombats release “Ready For The High”. This is the latest single from, their fifth studio album, Fix Yourself, Not The World- due to release on 7th January 2022. An album made in the deep of lockdown over zoom.

The track comes after the singles “Method to the Madness” and “If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming with You”, some of their best quality 7-inches to date. The track comes with a video of the band playing the song, which captured the excitement of their famous live shows; like their recent appearance at Reading and Leeds and Neighbourhood Weekender. Frontman Matthew “Murph” Murphy had this to say: ‘’Ready for the High’ is a 90’s inspired track that I was excited to toss a load of trumpets into. The song is about being engulfed in a bad place, but rather than accepting this as immutable, acknowledging that it is only temporary and that better times are closer than they (currently) appear.”.

The Wombats have accompanied their latest single with a steller European tour, and additional dates in the UK due to high demand. With appearances at London’s O2, Paris’ La Machine Du Moulin Rouge, and even Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo- to name a few of the incredible shows lined up for next year.

UK Arena Tour Dates:

14/04/22 – First Direct Arena- Leeds
15/04 – The O2- London
16/04 – Motorpoint Arena- Cardiff
18/04- Barrowland Ballroom- Glasgow
19/04- Barrowland Ballroom- Glasgow
21/04- Mountford Hall- Liverpool
22/04 – Mountford Hall- Liverpool
23/04 – Mountford Hall- Liverpool
26/04 – Open Air Theatre- Scarborough

Followed by a leg in Europe:

29/04/22 – La Machine Du Moulin Rouge- Paris
01/05 Carlswerk Victoria- Cologne
02/05 – Übel & Gefährlich- Hamburg
04/05 – Slaktkyrkan- Stockholm
05/05 – Rockefeller Music Hall- Oslo
06/05 – DR Koncerthuset- Copenhagen
07/05 – Huxley’s Neue Welt- Berlin
09/05 – Gasometer- Vienna
10/05 – Backstage Werk- Munich
12/05 – Estragon- Bologna
13/05 – Fabrique- Milan
14/05 Komplex 457- Zurich
16/05 – De Roma- Antwerp
17/05 – Paradiso- Amsterdam
18/05 – De Oosterpoort- Groningen
19/05 – TivoliVredenburg- Utrecht

Fix Yourself, Not The World tracklist:

1. Flip Me Upside Down
2. This Car Drives All By Itself
3. If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming With You
4. Ready For The High
5. Method to the Madness
6. People Don’t Change People, Time Does
7. Everything I Love Is Going To Die
8. Work Is Easy, Life Is Hard
9. Wildfire
10. Don’t Poke The Bear
11. Worry
12. Fix Yourself, Then The World (Reach Beyond Your Fingers)

Photo credit: Tom Oxley

Speaking about how he wanted ‘Beautiful People Ruin Your Life’ to be different from ‘Glitterbug’, frontman Matthew Murphy, said: “I wanted a bit more swagger. More confidence. I wanted the songs to be more sure of themselves, which is where I feel we are as a band.”

He continued: “I don’t tend to think of it as a whole album when I’m writing, I don’t sit down and come up with one idea. But looking back on Glitterbug, that’s an album about feeling trapped and escaping through partying. This album is different. I’m married, I’ve got a kid now, it’s coming through arrested development and trying to become mature adults, which is something I constantly fail at it.”

To celebrate the announcement, of the bands biggest UK headline tour, the band released a new single called ‘BEE-STING’, which will be released on limited edition on 9th of November, and will also feature alongside two new recordings on an expanded version of Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life.

“I think the song is again a bit of an homage to the ‘90s, a bit of a psychedelic nod to early Dandy Warhols, maybe. Our UK tour in March/April was probably my favourite tour ever, but it feels like this one is going to go off even more. Wembley is going to be a real moment for us,” Murphy says about the newly released track.

25/01/2019 – Glasgow O2 Academy – Glasgow

26/01 – First Direct Arena – Leeds

28/01 – Newport Centre – Newport

29/01 – Bournemouth O2 Academy – Bournemouth

31/01 – Birmingham O2 Academy – Birmingham

01/02 – London SSE Arena Wembley – London