The Wombats - This Modern Glitch (05/05/2011)
The Wombats - This Modern Glitch
The Wombats debut album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation was and still to this day is one of the best debuts of modern times. The success of the release was laid in the foundations of dance floor anthems Let’s Dance To Joy Division and Kill the Director, as well as the bands reputation for putting on some of the best live shows in the world.
So how exactly does a band with a strong debut follow up with an even better sophomore? The first step would be to tease the masses by releasing a new single months in advance to get the hype buzzing. That single being Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) a catchy as hell dance track with equally as awesome music video to match.
So when the album was finally available, initial listens try and compare it to their first effort, A Guide To Love Loss and Desperation. With the bar being set months before with Tokyo, it is easily declared that This Modern Glitch is in no way a let down. Opening track Our Perfect Disease is much more indie pop rock as opposed to a dance floor anthem, but don’t let that stop you from grooving away to the trios (second) foray into album number two.
Radio favourite Jump Into The Fog is extended from its radio version and somehow seems to lose a bit of momentum. It’s much better suited to being short and sweet with a radio edit as opposed to the seventeen second longer version, the difference is noticeable. Leading into our mature glitch, Anti-D is The Wombats all grown up. It really hits home, a song we can all relate to in some way, shape or form. It’s a nice change of pace, surprising, but in no way unwelcome.
Hitting the dance floor with the appropriately titled Techno Fan, which is set to be the bands next single, a song that to me is about finding your inner party animal in the seedy bars and discos of the 80’s. The Wombats have supposedly called 1996 the defining track of This Modern Glitch. While a some critics have called the track a space filler, I feel as though it sits well with the album. It gives possible glimpse into the future of The Wombats while at the same time allowing for the guitars chords to ring out and make some noise. Schumacher The Champagne is lost in the mix, ditching dance for grunge in a riff heavy finale to a potential album of the year.
So, it goes without saying that This Modern Glitch is simply put, a fucking awesome follow up for the trio from Liverpool who were suspected to fail upon their second release. Let’s hope The Wombats can make it a hat trick with their third outing.
Luke Sutton
So how exactly does a band with a strong debut follow up with an even better sophomore? The first step would be to tease the masses by releasing a new single months in advance to get the hype buzzing. That single being Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) a catchy as hell dance track with equally as awesome music video to match.
So when the album was finally available, initial listens try and compare it to their first effort, A Guide To Love Loss and Desperation. With the bar being set months before with Tokyo, it is easily declared that This Modern Glitch is in no way a let down. Opening track Our Perfect Disease is much more indie pop rock as opposed to a dance floor anthem, but don’t let that stop you from grooving away to the trios (second) foray into album number two.
Radio favourite Jump Into The Fog is extended from its radio version and somehow seems to lose a bit of momentum. It’s much better suited to being short and sweet with a radio edit as opposed to the seventeen second longer version, the difference is noticeable. Leading into our mature glitch, Anti-D is The Wombats all grown up. It really hits home, a song we can all relate to in some way, shape or form. It’s a nice change of pace, surprising, but in no way unwelcome.
Hitting the dance floor with the appropriately titled Techno Fan, which is set to be the bands next single, a song that to me is about finding your inner party animal in the seedy bars and discos of the 80’s. The Wombats have supposedly called 1996 the defining track of This Modern Glitch. While a some critics have called the track a space filler, I feel as though it sits well with the album. It gives possible glimpse into the future of The Wombats while at the same time allowing for the guitars chords to ring out and make some noise. Schumacher The Champagne is lost in the mix, ditching dance for grunge in a riff heavy finale to a potential album of the year.
So, it goes without saying that This Modern Glitch is simply put, a fucking awesome follow up for the trio from Liverpool who were suspected to fail upon their second release. Let’s hope The Wombats can make it a hat trick with their third outing.
Luke Sutton