The Wombats announce details of new album ‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’

The Wombats have announced full details of their fourth studio album, ‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’, due for release this February 9th 2018 via Kobalt Music Recordings, shared brand new single ‘Lemon To A Knife Fight’, full US headline tour dates, and a tour with The Pixies and Weezer.

‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’ sees The Wombats continuing to assert themselves as one of the biggest and best guitar pop sensations of our time. 2015’s Glitterbug’ LP saw a UK Top 5 Album, headline show at Alexandra Palace, and has currently received over 200 million digital streams. Whilst June 2017’s headline performance at Brixton Academy to celebrate the tenth anniversary of platinum-selling debut album A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation sold-out in under 24 hours, not to mention two sold-out nights at the Sydney Opera House.

Having premiered as Annie Mac’s ‘Hottest Record’ on BBC Radio 1, ‘Lemon to A Knife Fight’ rides a push-pull rollercoaster of euphoria and desperation, delivered with the bands signature animation and wit. Speaking of the track, frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy adds: “Lemon to a Knife Fight came around after my wife and I had a huge argument on Mulholland Drive. I’d been watching tons of David Lynch too, the song just kind of fell out of me.”

Stream ‘Lemon To A Knife Fight’ here – https://thewombats.lnk.to/ltakf

Written from three corners of the globe drummer Dan Haggis in London, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen nursing his new family in Oslo and frontman Murph in Los Angeles Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life was created over long distance writing sessions, supplemented by intense two-week in-person sessions in Oslo. With the addition of producers Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag’n’Bone Man) and Catherine Marks (Wolf Alice), the album finds The Wombats pushing the boundaries of alt-pop innovation with a lush, ultramodern indie soundscape wrapped in Blade Runner synths, future grooves, celestial solos and space age melodies.

I wanted to make an album that had more swagger, was a bit more laid back, something that wasnt punching you in the face every time you listen to it,Murph explains. On every level, musically and interpersonally, were much closer.

Debuting in the Top 5 on the UK Album Chart and Billboard 100, 2015’sGlitterbug’ saw lead single Greek Tragedyreceive over 70 million combined Spotify streams, surpassing even the band’s euphoric hit singles ‘Let’s Dance To Joy Division’, ‘Moving To New York’ and ‘Kill The Director’ that established them as chart-quashing champions of the noughties guitar pop explosion.

Where ‘Glitterbugs exploration of the mythology of Los Angeles and Murphs budding long-distance relationship, ‘Beautiful People Will ruin Your Life’ finds the singer newly married and relocated to LA.

The last album was about me meeting someone and my life going upside down in Los Angeles, partying too hard and getting myself in trouble,Murph explains. This album is about me battling against that, trying to live an adult life. And failing.

Rocketing between psychedelic euphoria and dark disfunction, ‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’ captures The Wombatsunique pairing of irrepressible hooks and tragi-comic lyricism with a newfound maturity and moving emotional depth. Together, the Liverpool-formed trio have created a record thats still instantly sing-along but demands to be taken seriously.

With UK tour dates soon TBA for 2018, The Wombats have detailed North American headline shows for this January, as well as US summer shows with The Pixies and Weezer through June and July. Full dates below.

Pre-order ‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’ here – https://thewombats.lnk.to/bpwryl

US Headline Tour Dates

January

8 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
9 – Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer
10 – Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Steel
13 – Boston, MA, Paradise
14 – Chapel Hill, NC, Cat
s Cradle
16 – Atlanta, GA, Centerstage
18 – St. Louis, MO, The Pageant
19 – Kansas City, MO, The Truman
22 – Denver, CO, Gothic
23 – Salt Lake City, UT, Rockwell Room
25 – Los Angeles, CA, The Fonda
26 – Santa Ana, CA, Observatory
27 – San Francisco, CA, The Fillmore
29 – Portland, OR, Wonder
30 – Vancouver, BC, Venue
31 – Seattle, WA, Showbox Market

Supporting The Pixies & Weezer:

June

23 – Tampa, FL, MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
26 – New Orleans, LA, Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square
27 – Dallas, TX, Starplex Pavilion
29 – The Woodlands, TX, The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
30 – Austin, TX, Austin360 Amphitheater

Danny Peart
Danny Pearthttps://www.dannypeartphotography.co.uk
Editor / Live Music Photographer / Journalist at Soundcheck-Live

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