Chart-topping, Platinum-selling indie heroes The Wombats return today with melodic new single Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come and accompanying music video.
Two years since scoring their debut UK #1 album with ‘Fix Yourself, Not The World’, The Wombats are back and bigger than ever. Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come delves into lush tropical pop, falsetto funk and futuristic orchestral textures as lead singer Murph details, but also comes to terms with his anti-social side.
Murph says on the track: “‘[It] is about constantly defaulting to a ‘Lone Wolf’ mindset, and what the real life consequences of that may be.” This relatable sentiment is reflected in the lyrics: “Sorry I’m late, I didn’t want to come, It’s not that I hate you, I just hate everyone.”
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 One tent overspilling with crowds of 18-24-year-olds that remain their core audience twenty years into their career.
SORRY I’M LATE, I DIDN’T WANT TO COME IS OUT NOW – BUY/STREAM HERE
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