The Wombats Announce Extended Version Of Oh! The Ocean + Release New Single ‘Holy Sugar’
The Wombats today announce the extended version of their sixth studio album, Oh! The Ocean, out via AWAL Recordings on 5th December. Alongside the album, they release infectious new single Holy Sugar.
The band are continuing their mammoth worldwide tour in Australia this week, playing shows in Torquay, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Wollongong, Sydney and Fremantle throughout September & October. Tickets available at secretsounds.com.
The Wombats will then head to North America next month before returning to the UK in December, where they’ll visit cities not covered in the first leg of their Oh! The Ocean arena tour earlier this year, which saw them play sold out shows across the country including London’s O2.
The extended version of Oh! The Ocean will feature the original tracklist plus a collection of new songs including ones recorded by John Congleton, and offers fans a deeper dive into the sonic world the band built with the album. Hottest Record on Radio 1, Holy Sugar, was produced in the studio by Mark Crew (Greek Tragedy / Lemon to a Knife Fight / Turn) and marks the first taste of these new additions, showing The Wombats in their purest form.
Speaking on the new single, Murph says: “Definitely a tune that has a bit more sweat and swagger to it compared to the singles from ‘OH!TO’. Felt like it was maybe time to bring a bit of dirt back to the table.”
This summer, the trio brought Oh! The Ocean to life on some of the biggest festival stages, delivering standout performances at NOS Alive, Boardmasters, and Y Not Festival, as well as On The Waterfront – the band’s biggest outdoor headline show to date in their hometown of Liverpool.
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 1 tent overspilling with crowds of 18-24-year-olds that remain their core audience twenty years into their career.
The extended version of Oh! The Ocean is a bold marker in The Wombats’ journey, propelling them further into an exciting new era.
EXTENDED VERSION OF OH! THE OCEAN
OUT ON 5TH DECEMBER – STREAM HERE
THE WOMBATS
OH! THE OCEAN AUSTRALIAN TOUR
WITH DEL WATER GAP# | BEA AND HER BUSINESS* | RA RA VIPER^
Sat 20 September – SummerSalt Series, Torquay Common, Torquay #*^
Sun 21 September – AEC Theatre, Adelaide *^
Wed 24 September – Festival Hall, Melbourne ^ Fri 26 September – Riverstage, Brisbane #^
Sat 27 September – The Station, Sunshine Coast #^ Sun 28 September – UOW UniHall, Wollongong #^
Wed 01 October – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney ^ Sat 04 October – SummerSalt Series, Fremantle Prison, Fremantle #^
Tickets for all Australian shows are available at secretsounds.com.
