The Wombats share new single, announce fifth album Fix Yourself, Not The World

English indie rockers The Wombats have kicked off an exciting new chapter in their story today, releasing brand new single 'If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming With You' and announcing their fifth studio album.

Fix Yourself, Not The World, set to land next January, will be accompanied by a six-date headline UK tour in April 2022 - playing huge nights in Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff, Liverpool, Scarborough and The O2 London. Unfortunately, no Irish dates have been added.

The Wombats' latest track ‘If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming With You’ is also BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds Hottest Record In The World tonight.

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.

They sent individual files to producers Jacknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Gabe Simon (Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey), Paul Meaney (Twenty One Pilots, Nothing But Thieves), Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag‘n’Bone Man) and Mike Crossey (The 1975, The War on Drugs, Yungblud) to mix into the finished tracks.

“It was pure madness, to be honest,” explains Murph. “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!” Dan Haggis adds.

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 A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation.

The remix has helped the band surpass 1.5 billion worldwide streams, also amassing an extra 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify since just January. Their summer ahead is set to include the second from top billings at Reading & Leeds Festival main stage and Neighbourhood Weekender.

Listen to 'If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming With You' below:

Pre-Order Fix Yourself, Not The World here.

Tracklist:

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