New year, new Wombats. The longtime indie trio are back with their fifth studio album ‘Fix Yourself, Not The World’, the sequel to 2018’s ‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’ – though it’s the first album they’ve ever had to. record remotely.

The coronavirus pandemic has spread the three Wombats around the world – frontman Matthew “Murph” Murphy in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen in Oslo, Norway and drummer Dan Haggis in London – during the recording process, but that did not destabilize the trio. their stride. “Fix yourself, not the world”, as NMEThe recent review of the album observed by , is full of “pop ambition, indie ideals and sonic experimentation”.

NME recently sat down with the now reunited Murphy and Haggis to talk about each of the 12 tracks on “Fix Yourself, Not The World”, with the two band members discussing how The Prodigy, Blur and Radiohead became key influences on the disk.

You can watch the Wombats’ full track-by-track video guide to their new album, “Fix Yourself, Not The World,” above.

The Wombats will tour the UK in support of “Fix Yourself, Not The World” in April. You can check out their upcoming tour dates below and find tickets here.

April
14 – First Direct Arena, Leeds
15 – The O2, London
16 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff
18 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
19 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
21 – Mountford Hall, Liverpool
22 – Mountford Hall, Liverpool
23 – Mountford Hall, Liverpool

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26 – Outdoor Theatre, Scarborough