★★★★★
Sound: The Wombats are an alternative band which sums up their style well. It is not too similar to other bands but is very well written and complex with many parts interlocking at all times to give the full effect which is very impresive. I suppose if I had to give similar artists it would be Foals, Bloc Party and maybe even the Arctic Monkeys...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Proudly Present Liverpool pop-rockers The Wombats took what they learned from quick fame, long tours and the lonely aftermath of it all and put it into their second full-length The Wombats Proudly Present: This Modern Glitch. For the most part, this sounds like a happy record. You'll dance, nod your head and shake your hips...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-08-29
★★★★★
When The Wombats released A Guide To Love, Loss, And Desperation in 2007, they released a brilliant, shiny pop record with hooks laden all over and spit-shined English vocals that made for one of the most fun records of that year. The Wombats return to the same style with This Modern Glitch, but to a much lesser grade of success and a much greater feeling of overall blandness...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-06-20
★★★★★
Find It At: Amazon | Insound "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...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2011-05-30
★★★★★
Considering the four-year wait for This Modern Glitch, this sophomore effort isn't a huge development from their debut, A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation, and thankfully so. Just like its predecessor, the record will receive mixed reviews, yet opinions from either side of the spectrum should surely agree on this: although the sequel doesn't push past The Wombats' musical comforts, it does satiate four-years' worth of expectation...
- www.themusicnetwork.com
2011-05-18
★★★★★
Despite managing to find their own comfortable niche - being too unremarkable to ever be someone's favourite band but quirky enough to soundtrack student union indie nights across the country - The Wombats looked set to be remembered, at best, as a landfill indie act. However, their second album could see that change, as the band have ditched the guitars and got in über-producer Jacknife Lee in a bid to boldly reinvent their sound. Or to make a (very) late attempt to cash in on nu-rave...
- www.noripcord.com
2011-05-17
★★★★★
While out promoting some latter-day U2 album or other, Bono once proclaimed (likely with a straight face) that, "We're reapplying for the position of best band in the world". Limitation-aware young scamps that they are, The Wombats' ambition for their second album is far more modest: '...This Modern Glitch' finds them aspiring to nothing loftier than nightwatchmen at the indie landfill. Congratulations boys, the job is yours. Now, when can you stop? OK, that's cruel...
- www.nme.com
2011-05-11
★★★★★
You'd be forgiven for thinking during opening track 'Our Perfect Disease' that The Wombats had done a Hollywood and gone dark for their second album. Gone are the chirpy, irreverent tales of unrequited love to be replaced by a more solemn, downbeat take on the matter: "It was the perfect disease we had / Something to argue and scream about" - and also absent are the infectious guitar hooks, replaced by repetitive, unsettling synths that introduce us to a side of them only hinted at on the debut...
- www.themusicfix.co.uk
2011-05-11
★★★★★
When it was re-released as a single, The Wombats' best-known track, 'Let's Dance To Joy Division', was a ubiquitous indie club dancefloor hit. Full of conflict, its lyrics simultaneously bemoaned and celebrated the irony of people dancing along to 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', revealing both the healing power of music alongside people's disregard for the song's emotional content...
- new.uk.music.yahoo.com
2011-05-09
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