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announce fifth studio album
FIX YOURSELF, NOT THE WORLD
Out 7th January 2022

PRE-ORDER HERE

AUSTRALIAN HEADLINE TOUR CONFIRMED FOR JUNE 2022
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TICKETS ON SALE
9am 23rd August

NEW TRACK
‘IF YOU EVER LEAVE, I’M COMING WITH YOU’
OUT NOW – LISTEN HERE

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The Wombats kick off the most exciting phase of their constantly evolving success story today with the announcement of their fifth studio album Fix Yourself, Not The World, due for release on 7th January 2022 via Warner Music Australia, pre-order HERE. Alongside this, the indie heroes have revealed plans for a seven date headline Australian tour in April 2022, playing massive nights in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart. Tickets will go on sale from 9am on 23rd August. The announcement comes accompanied by a brand new single ‘If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming With You’, which is BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds Hottest Record In The World.

Recording remotely over the past year from their respective homes, the band have been working hard to produce some of the most captivating, inventive and forward-thinking music of their career to date. With frontman Matthew “Murph” Murphy in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen in Oslo and drummer Dan Haggis in London, they discussed each day’s plan via Zoom, then recorded separately, sending individual files to producers Jacknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Gabe Simon (Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey), Paul Meaney (Twenty One Pilots, Nothing But Thieves) and Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag‘n’Bone Man) to mix into the finished tracks. “It was pure madness, to be honest,” explains Murph. See the eboy designed album artwork below.

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“We’re so excited for people to hear this new album! We’ve explored new genres and pushed ourselves further than ever musically. It will always stand out for us in our memories from our other albums as we recorded it across three cities during lockdown, and we weren’t all in the same room at the same time!” says Dan Haggis.

Following the cathartic ‘Method To The Madness’, The Wombats’ new single ‘If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming With You’ is an infectious electro-pop ode to obsessive devotion. Speaking about the track, Murph says “I noticed that 2020 and 2021 put some serious strain on interpersonal relationships, it felt like people around me were really struggling. For me, ‘If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming With You’ taps into all of that and asks the question… is it the circumstances putting undue stress on people? Or have the circumstances shed light on people’s incompatibility with one another?”

15 years and three top 5 UK albums into their career, The Wombats are pulling in a bigger audience than ever before. The viral success of Oliver Nelson’s remix of their 2015 hit ‘Greek Tragedy’ on TikTok has enraptured a whole new generation of fans, a feat they’ve managed to continually repeat since their 2007 debut and ARIA Gold A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation. Used in over 600,000 videos (some of which have over 100 million views), the remix has rocketed to over 30 million streams, propelling the original to 120 million streams and sending it Gold in the US. It’s also helped them amass an extra 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify since just January; further illustration, if any were needed, of The Wombats’ ability to reach new generations of fans through the timeless power of their song writing and lyrics alone.

With a summer ahead that includes second from top billings at Reading & Leeds Festival main stage, plus their biggest ever UK headline tour and Australian tour set for 2022, this is only the start of what’s to come as fans new and old gear up for the next exciting chapter from one of Britain’s most adored bands.

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Catch
THE WOMBATS
Live at:

JUNE 5 2022 – HBF Stadium, PERTH, WA
JUNE 7 2022 – City Hall, HOBART, TAS
JUNE 9 2022 – Entertainment Centre Theatre, ADELAIDE, SA
JUNE 10 2022 – John Cain Arena, MELBOURNE, VIC
JUNE 11 2022 – Hordern Pavilion, SYDNEY, NSW
JUNE 15 2022 – UC Refectory, CANBERRA, ACT
JUNE 17 2022 – Riverstage, BRISBANE, QLD

TICKETS

Pre-order Fix Yourself, Not The World to gain early access to presale from 9am local Friday 20 August

Secret Sounds presale available from 4pm local Friday 20 August – sign up here

General onsale starts 9am local Monday 23 August via secretsounds.com

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Fix Yourself, Not The World
tracklist:

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

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