British band The Wombats just released their sixth album ‘Oh The Ocean’, their first album release since 2022. Alongside the album, the Liverpudlian band released official visuals for each tracks on their Youtube channel. This album launches The Wombats new era. A project that grooves with social anxiety, internal strife, compulsive behaviours and the dilemmas and tribulations of Los Angeles life, where lead singer Matthew Murphy resides with his family.
Kicking off with the first single ‘Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come’ back in October 2024, Murphy shared in an interview with NME, how the single focuses on his social anxiety, describing it as being: “about constantly defaulting to a Lone Wolf mindset, and what the real-life consequences of that may be”.
The album title also refers to a trip to the beach Murphy took with his family. Speaking about it, the frontman said: “I’ve been to many beaches and seas and coasts over the years but for some reason it felt like the first time I had ever seen it and was truly present. There was this revelation that I had been living a life caught up in my own head, or in some kind of racing helmet or with blinkers on. It was really a potent experience.”
Continuing, he said: “I felt like I saw everything new for the first time, and was aware that I had been so selfish to not take in how crazy the world and life is. I’d been caught up in my own BS for way too long. The album offers up some internal questions like: why are my head and body disconnected all the time? Why am I incapable at times of seeing any form of beauty in the world or in others? Why do I expect the world to conform to my will? Why do I never stop and smell the flowers?”
The Wombats will embark on a six-date UK tour this March where they’ll be supported by guests Everything Everything and Red Rum Club. They’ll then hit the European roads from late March to late April and will end their tour with a home show in Liverpool on June 19. Tickets are still available via Ticketmaster.
The Wombats new album ‘Oh, The Ocean‘ is available to listen on all streaming platforms as well as physical copies online and in stores.
