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<\/p>\nSince releasing 2007’s A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation<\/i>, rock trio the Wombats have been building a dedicated following. The Liverpool, England group scored in the U.K. and Europe with its first three albums, 2015’s Glitterbug<\/i> cracked the U.S. market. The band’s latest, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life<\/i>, is set for release in February; a single, \u201cLemon to a Knife Fight,\u201d has already been released, and this summer the Wombats will tour America with Weezer and the Pixies. But ahead of that, there’s a headlining tour.<\/p>\n
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Though the Wombats’ success in the U.S. took longer to materialize, the band’s guitarist, lead vocalist and lyricist Matthew \u201cMurph\u201d Murphy says that the group now \u201cplays similar size venues on both sides of the pond.\u201d He suggests that breaking through in America took a bit longer because his lyrics \u201care not easily digestible.\u201d But Murph believes that good things come to those who are patient. \u201cThere’s something more rewarding about that than having it all come to you at once,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
The Wombats’ latest album showcases a modern sound that seems to draw upon both the jagged vibe of punk and the dance-oriented 1990s sounds of nearby Manchester. But Murph dismisses comparisons to the Britpop scene. \u201cI do love that era of guitar music,\u201d he admits, \u201cbut I just try to write stuff that resonates with me personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
After releasing three albums on Warner imprint 14th<\/sup> Floor Records, the Wombats moved to Kobalt Music Group to release Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life<\/i>. \u201cWe weren’t exactly a priority artist at Warner,\u201d Murph says. But he’s not bitter; he understands the realities of marketing music in the 21st<\/sup> century. Revealing both that understanding and more than a hint of humor, he observes that \u201cYou can squeeze a lot more Michelin stars out of Ed Sheeran than you can the Wombats.\u201d<\/p>\n The lyrics of tunes like \u201cLemon to a Knife Fight\u201d might be inscrutable to American audiences, but the Wombats’ groove \u2013 especially onstage, where Murph believes the band is at its best \u2013 is undeniable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since releasing 2007’s A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, rock trio the Wombats have been building a dedicated following. The Liverpool, England group scored in the U.K. and Europe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,49,62],"tags":[3328],"class_list":["post-14044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-new-release","category-rawk","tag-wombats","cat-41-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14046,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044\/revisions\/14046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}