The Wombats have announced a new album and UK arena tour

The Wombats are set to release their sixth studio album early next year.

‘Oh! The Ocean’ is due on 21st February 2025 via AWAL. The Liverpool band have also announced a six-date UK arena tour for March 2025, including a show at The O2 in London.

Frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy explains the album’s title was inspired by a family holiday: “I’ve been to many beaches and seas and coasts over the years but for some reason it felt like the first time I had ever seen it and was truly present.

“There was this revelation that I had been living a life caught up in my own head, or in some kind of racing helmet or with blinkers on. It was really a potent experience. I felt like I saw everything new for the first time, and was aware that I had been so selfish to not take in how crazy the world and life is. I’d been caught up in my own BS for way too long.

“The album offers up some internal questions like: why are my head and body disconnected all the time? Why am I incapable at times of seeing any form of beauty in the world or in others? Why do I expect the world to conform to my will? Why do I never stop and smell the flowers?”

Accompanying the announcement is the release of new single ‘Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come’. Murph says: “[It] is about constantly defaulting to a ‘Lone Wolf’ mindset, and what the real life consequences of that may be.”

Tickets for The Wombats’ UK tour go on general sale at 10am BST on 19th October.

The dates in full read:

MARCH
18 Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
19 The O2, London
21 Utilita Arena, Cardiff
22 AO Arena, Manchester
25 OVO Hydro, Glasgow
26 First Direct Arena, Leeds