Check out “The Wombats”

This would normally be the part of the review where I list my ‘stand out tracks’ but it’s difficult when the whole album’s a stand out. If I really had to choose though It would be hard to go past ‘Lost In The Post’, ‘Here Comes The Anxiety’, ‘Backfire At The Disco’, ‘Moving To New York’ (even though I actually prefer the version on Girls, Boys and Marsupials), ‘Little Miss Pipe Dream’ and of course ‘Let’s Dance To Joy Division’ because it’s literally impossible to sit stay still while this song is playing.

For more info, find the complete review here.

There’s more info here, in this article from the UK’s Guardian:

What is it with indie bands and animals? First Arctic Monkeys, then Hot Puppies and Pull Tiger Tail, now it’s the turn of the Wombats to get all zoological on our ass. Anyway, we can forgive them that, in fact we can forgive them anything, because on the B-side of their new single they use the word “fulcrum”, the first time this word has ever appeared in a pop song…

…Don’t be fooled by the cute three-part harmonies, humorous lyrics, floppy hair, and the fluffy toy wombat that accompanies the band onstage. There’s bitter in these sweet songs about girls and goats. Yes, goats. Their first song was called An Ode to Charles the Goat - “about a fictional goat with drug issues,” according to Murph. Apparently, the only reason they started gigging in the first place was to raise the 300 quid needed to buy a picture of said goat called Charles that they’d seen in an art shop window.

You can also check out the Wombats on MySpace.

Tagged as: Hot Puppies, Pull Tiger Tai