To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of their fabled debut album, The Wombats proudly present… A guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, originally released on the 5th of November 2007.
Home to indie dancefloor staples such as ‘Moving To New York’, ‘Let’s Dance To Joy Division’ and ‘Kill The Director’ the album has sold over 400,000 copies in the UK, been streamed more than 457 million times and is BPI certified platinum. The album will be available on vinyl for the first time pressed on special edition pink vinyl, alongside two art prints.
Over 15 years into their career, The Wombats are pulling in bigger audiences than ever before. The viral success of Oliver Nelson’s remix of 2015 hit ‘Greek Tragedy’ 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. The band met and formed in Liverpool, UK in the early 2000's, and have moved onto have international success over the course of five studio albums, topping the UK album chart with 2022's Fix Yourself, Not The World and reaching over 1 billion streams worldwide with their acclaimed discography.
2022 has seen the band play their biggest headline shows to date across the US, UK, Europe and Australia, including a headline show at The O2 in London.
The Wombats - Proudly Present... A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
Side A
1. Tales of Girls, Boys & Marsupials
2. Kill the Director
3. Moving to New York
4. Lost in the Post
5. Party in a Forest (Where's Laura?)
6. School Uniforms
7. Here Comes the Anxiety
Side B
1. Let's Dance to Joy Division
2. Backfire at the Disco
3. Little Miss Pipedream
4. Dr. Suzanne Mattox PhD
5. Patricia the Stripper
6. My First Wedding