The Wombats today unveil their sixth studio album, Oh! The Ocean, – stream here. Read our review here.The band will be embarking on a massive UK & European Tour next month that sees them play their biggest headline shows to date – tickets available here.
Alongside the album, the band also shares a new music video for gleaming disco track ‘I Love America and She Hates Me’ starring viral Cyr wheeler Hauke Narten and directed by Logan Fields. The song dives into Murph’s love/hate relationship with America, its striving ambitions, divisive politics and lax gun laws.
Two years since scoring their debut UK #1 album with Fix Yourself Not The World, The Wombats are back and bigger than ever. 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.
The Wombats will be setting out on their biggest ever UK Arena Tour next month, kicking off in Nottingham on March 18th, and then onto London, Cardiff, Manchester, Hull, Glasgow and Leeds. They then cross the channel for 14 dates across France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Luxembourg and Belgium. The band are also set to play their largest homecoming show at Liverpool’s On The Waterfront on June 19.
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. Headline shows at Crystal Palace and The O2 followed amid the band’s biggest touring cycle so far, taking in arenas across the globe and culminating at Reading 2024, where the band headlined a rammed Radio One tent overspilling with crowds of 18-24-year-olds that remain their core audience twenty years into their career.
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