The Wombats
This Modern Glitch
Bright Antenna/ILG
May 24, 2011 Web Exclusive
“Please allow me to be your anti-depressant/I too am prescribed as freely as any decongestant,” Wombats lead singer Matthew Murphy pleads unironically on “Anti-D,” one of the tracks from This Modern Glitch. In the video for the song, Murphy skulks around a sunny suburban neighborhood clad in all black. Instead of feeling empathetic, you just want to buy him a lemonade so he’ll leave.
Glitch is the Liverpool band’s second LP, following their surprisingly cheeky 2007 debut A Guide to Love Loss & Desperation. Whereas that album’s hit single “Let’s Dance to Joy Division!” (the title lyric finishes, “...and celebrate the irony”) had the right amount of whimsy to drive home the band’s Franz Ferdinand-style of full throttle synth-rock, Glitch is an inconsistent spin of driving yet ultimately unmemorable dance-punk tracks.
Even on first single “Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves),” which is maybe the band’s best and catchiest song to date, Murphy expresses his touring ennui with the refrain, “I’m sick of dancing with the beast.” Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner can pull off this kind of mopey swagger while still tapping toes, but for all of their infectious dance-floor grooves, The Wombats could stand to lighten up a bit. (www.thewombats.co.uk)
Author rating: 4/10
Average reader rating: 7/10
Most Recent
- Beck Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Song “In the Night” (News) —
- Premiere: Convinced Friend Shares New Single “On Fire” (News) —
- Slow Fiction Share New Single “turning down flowers” (News) —
- Premiere: Kelly Doyle Shares New Single “Cold Open” (News) —
- Josefin Öhrn Shares New Single “Electrified” Featuring Bobby Gillespie (News) —
Comments
Submit your comment
May 25th 2011
9:31am
you people have got to be joking….
this album is incredible!
June 9th 2011
4:41am
Don’t have enough money to buy a house? Worry not, because it is available to receive the mortgage loans to resolve all the problems. Hence take a short term loan to buy all you need.
July 26th 2012
8:52am
I would like to propose not to hold back until you earn enough money to order different goods! You can just take the credit loans or just short term loan and feel free
July 23rd 2013
1:31pm
Did you know anything about custom papers writing companies? Did you understand such kind of professionals were abe to write academic papers of premium quality. Hence, you could buy essay online to win the best prize.
July 28th 2013
8:14pm
Pay attention to this EssaysService agency so that you would order perfect essay paper and get the best of our amazing firm when it comes to professional term paper help.
July 30th 2013
9:54pm
Other websites proposed individual nursing essay help on every possible difficulty about writing papers.