The Wombats today unveil the music video of their latest single ‘Everything I Love Is Going To Die’, an upbeat homage to living to the fullest while we still can. Premiering as BBC Radio 1’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ on the Future Sounds Show with Clara Amfo, the track is the latest offering from their upcoming fifth studio album Fix Yourself, Not The World, due for release on 14th January 2022 via AWAL. Inspired by the album artwork designed by eBoy, often named as ‘godfathers of pixel art’, the RMV Productions directed animated video sees the 8-bit city and the characters from the album pixerama come to life.

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Drawing equally from the tones and textures of modern pop as the likes of New Order and The Cure, ‘Everything I love Is Going To Die’ finds frontman Matthew “Murph” Murphy at his most wry and surreal. “The song is about the impermanence of life, and with that in mind, the beauty of each passing second. Key line for me is 'Icarus Was My Best Friend, So I'm Gonna Make Him Proud In The End', which I guess is a playful take on living life to its fullest even though the consequences of that might be dire. Certainly not a call to Nihilism however, but perhaps a call to being present and the joy that can be found in appreciating each moment we find ourselves in,” he explains.

To celebrate the release of the album, The Wombats have earlier announced a series of eleven exclusive UK shows beginning on January 6th, 2022 at PRYZM, Kingston. In partnership with local record stores, this underplay tour will end with a midnight album release show at The Invisible Wind Factory in Liverpool, where The Wombats’ saga started. This is an extraordinary opportunity for fans to catch the band in an intimate setting before they go on the road for their biggest ever UK headline tour set for 2022, including a landmark show at London’s The O2. Tickets and album bundles available here

Recording remotely over the past year from their respective homes, The Wombats have been working hard to produce some of the most captivating, inventive and forward-thinking music of their career to date. With Murph 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, sending 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,” says Murph.

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. Used in over 600,000 videos (some of which have over 100 million views), the remix has rocketed to over 30 million streams, propelling the original to 120 million streams and sending it Gold in the US. It’s helped the band surpass 1.5 billion worldwide streams, also amassing an extra 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify since just January; further illustration, if any were needed, of The Wombats’ ability to reach new generations of fans through the timeless power of their songwriting and lyrics alone.

With their mammoth headline tour set for 2022, recent single ‘If You Ever Leave, I’m Coming With You’ enjoying 7 weeks of Radio 1 playlist rotation, performances lined up at Tramlines and Kendal Calling festivals next summer, and Fix Yourself, Not The World due for release on 14th January, this is only the start of what's to come as fans new and old gear up for the next exciting chapter from one of Britain’s most adored bands.

Fix Yourself, Not The World 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)

Intimate UK Shows

6 January 2022 - Banquet Records at PRYZM, Kingston (8:00PM)

7 January 2022 - Pie And Vinyl at The Gaiety Bar, Southsea (7:30PM)

8 January 2022 - HMV at The Empire, Coventry (7:30PM)

9 January 2022 - Rough Trade (Acoustic & Signing), Nottingham (12:00PM)

9 January 2022 - Rough Trade at The Level, Nottingham (7:00PM)

10 January 2022 - Truck at O2 Academy 2, Oxford (7:30PM)

11 January 2022 - Rough Trade (Acoustic & Signing), Bristol (12:00PM)

11 January 2022 - Rough Trade at The Marble Factory, Bristol (7:30PM)

12 January 2022 - Rough Trade (Acoustic & Signing), London (12:00PM)

12 January 2022 - Resident at The Chalk, Brighton (6:30PM)

13 January 2022 - Jacaranda at The Invisible, Liverpool (23.59PM) Midnight Album Release show

UK Arena Tour Dates:

14 April 2022 - First Direct Arena, Leeds - support from Sports Team and The Night Café

15 April 2022 - The O2, London - support from Sports Team and The Night Café

16 April 2022 - Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff - support from Sports Team and The Night Café

18 April 2022 - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow (SOLD OUT) - support from Sports Team

19 April 2022 - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow - support from Sports Team

21 April 2022 - Mountford Hall, Liverpool - support from The Night Café

22 April 2022 - Mountford Hall, Liverpool (SOLD OUT) - support from The Night Café

23 April 2022 - Mountford Hall, Liverpool (SOLD OUT) - support from The Night Café

26 May 2022 - Open Air Theatre, Scarboroug

Festival Dates:

24 July 2022 - Tramlines Festival, Sheffield

28 - 31 July 2022 - Kendal Calling

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