The Wombats will release their sixth studio album in February. The new album comes ahead of a UK tour including a Manchester gig at Manchester Arena.
The Manchester Arena gig is one of six UK shows The Wombats will headline in March.
The chart-topping, platinum selling indue band will release their new album Oh! The Ocean on 14 February. The new album comes three years after The Wombats hit the number one spot with the album Fix Yourself Not The World.
The new album is expected to embrace confessional emotional honesty whilst embracing the world behind the self. The album comes after the band took 50 new songs to Los Angeles in July 2024 for six weeks of sessions with producer John Congleton. The period ultimately lead to what has been described as their most sonically adventurous album yet.
The title is inspired by a beach trip frontman Matthew Murphy took during a family holiday. As he explains, “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. 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 first taste of the new album landed in the form of Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come which premiered as the Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1’s New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The Wombats release Oh! The Ocean on 14 February 2025.
When do The Wombats headline at Manchester Arena?
The Wombats headline at Manchester Arena on 22 March 2025. The Manchester gig is one of six UK dates they are headlining:
18 March – Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena
19 March – London, O2
21 March – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
22 March – Manchester, Manchester Arena
25 March – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
26 March – Leeds, First Direct Arena
