THE WOMBATS REVEAL NEW VIDEO FOR SINGLE ‘CHEETAH TONGUE’

Having premiered locally on the Triple J Breakfast Show and in the UK via Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show as her “Hottest Record”, The Wombats have revealed their excellent new single, Cheetah Tongue, taken from the forthcoming new album Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life, which can be pre-ordered here, ahead of its release on February 9th 2018 via Warner Music Australia.

Speaking of the track, frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy explains, “Cheetah Tongue is a song about dealing with the pressures of adulthood and failing miserably. The opening song on the album and probably the most psychedelic.”

Having also debuted as Annie Mac’s ‘Hottest Record’ on BBC Radio 1, the album’s first single Lemon To A Knife Fight has been a fixture on Radio 1’s B-List and has currently received over 3 million Spotify streams alone, as well as 22 global placements in Spotify’s New Music Friday and Apple Music’s ‘Best Of The Week’ and ‘A’ List. While instant grat track Turn has also clocked up over 3 million Spotify streams!

Written from three corners of the globe – drummer Dan Haggis in London, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen nursing his new family in Oslo and 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. Produced by 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, irrepressible hooks and tragi-comic lyricism belied by a newfound maturity and moving emotional depth.

2015’s album Glitterbug, that debuted in the Top 5 UK Album Chart and Billboard 100, has received over 200 million digital 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.

2017 saw the Liverpool-bred trio headline Brixton Academy (which sold-out in under 24 hours), as well as two sold-out nights at the Sydney Opera House.

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