The Wombats

The Wombats today announce the extended version of their sixth studio album, Oh! The Ocean,  out via AWAL Recordings out 5th December - stream here. Alongside the album, they release infectious new single ‘Holy Sugar’ - listen here. The band are continuing their mammoth worldwide tour in Australia, then North America next month, before heading back to the UK in December for the second leg of their arena tour where they’ll be covering cities they didn’t visit earlier this year. The extended version of Oh! The Ocean will feature the original tracklist plus a collection of new songs including ones recorded by John Congleton, and offers fans a deeper dive into the sonic world the band built with the album. Hottest Record on Radio 1

‍‘Holy Sugar’, was produced in the studio by Mark Crew (Greek Tragedy / Lemon to a Knife Fight / Turn) and marks the first taste of these new additions, showing The Wombats in their purest form.Speaking on the new single, Murph says: “Definitely a tune that has a bit more sweat and swagger to it compared to the singles from ‘OH!TO’. Felt like it was maybe time to bring a bit of dirt back to the table.”This summer, the trio brought Oh! The Ocean to life on some of the biggest festival stages, delivering standout performances at NOS Alive, Boardmasters and Y Not Festival,as well as On The Waterfront - the band's biggest outdoor headline show to date in their hometown of Liverpool . This September, The Wombats will take the new album to Australia for a run of headline shows, before embarking on a major North American tour throughout October, with dates in San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Austin and more. The band will then return to the UK for a huge arena tour from 2nd December, visiting cities not covered in the first leg of their Oh! The Ocean arena tour earlier this year, which saw them play sold out shows across the country including London’s O2. Full tour listing below.Since they emerged as leading lights of the late-‘00s indie rock scene with 2007 debut A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, Murph, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen and drummer Dan Haggis have maintained an incredible upward momentum. 2011’s electro-flecked second album This Modern Glitch made them Top Ten regulars; 2015’s third Glitterbug saw them embraced by the TikTok generation, with ‘Greek Tragedy’ a viral hit several times over. By 2018’s Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life they'd stepped up to arenas and 2022’s Fix Yourself, Not the World consolidated their unstoppable rise with the band’s first Number One album, seeing them reach over 2.5 billion streams. Headline shows at Crystal Palace and The O2 followed amid the band’s biggest touring cycle so far, taking in arenas across the globe and culminating at Reading 2024, where the band headlined a rammed Radio 1 tent overspilling with crowds of 18-24-year-olds that remain their core audience twenty years into their career.