Remarkably, that is the Wombats’ twentieth 12 months collectively, and because of prolific touring and streaming they’ve by no means been greater. The British trio have gone viral on TikTok with archive monitor Greek Tragedy, and are reserving exhibits from 200 to twenty,000 capability to advertise this fifth album. Like Stunning Individuals Will Spoil Your Life(2018), Repair Your self, Not the World sticks to the chummy indie playlist pop the band are so good at. Earnest, lovestruck singer Murph (Matthew Murphy) is entrance and centre of a shiny stew of simply digestible influences. Every little thing sounds vaguely like one thing else, with out instantly plagiarising anybody, though I believed “U2 on the membership” extra usually than I needed to.
Because the tune titles warn, the final temper is perky self-help by means of repurposed cliches reminiscent of Work Is Simple, Life Is Arduous, or stalker anthem If You Ever Go away, I’m Coming With You. The most effective tracks had been launched final 12 months: Prepared for the Excessive is a deliciously bizarre cut-and-shut, and Technique to the Insanity has a beautiful collapsed feeling. Principally the album settles for sprightly mediocrity, and is commonly fairly pleasurable, should you outline pleasure because the absence of ache.
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