Jun 05, 2008 The Wombats debut album 1.Tales of Girls,Boys and Marsupials. 2.Kill the Director. 3.Moving to New York. 4.Lost in the Post 5.Party in a Forest (Where's Laur. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2007 CD release of A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation on Discogs. From the opening acapella harmonising of Tales Of Girls, Boys and Marsupials, which also kicks off their near-perfect live performances, A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation is a wonderful musical experience, easily one of the albums of the year and one of those irritating debuts that are so good they should be illegal.
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Let's be honest, how could an album that contains Let's Dance To Joy Division possibly fail? It just can't, can it? Singles like this come along about once every five years, if not once a decade. This one song alone would have ensured The Wombats a glowing review.
That's not all the lads from 2008's European City of Culture have to offer, though. From the opening acapella harmonising of Tales Of Girls, Boys and Marsupials, which also kicks off their near-perfect live performances, A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation is a wonderful musical experience, easily one of the albums of the year and one of those irritating debuts that are so good they should be illegal.
Pah! You say? Average shouty pop, you claim? Rubbish novelty records, you whinge? You are mad, we say. Mad! Backfire At The Disco, Party In A Forest (Where's Laura) and Patricia The Stripper are every bit as good as Let's Dance itself, which is very, very, very, very good indeed. As is Kill The Director – even if it did outstay its welcome on the radio – and just about every other track you'll find here.
The album, like their live set, is shot through with fun, infectious wit and a desire to create perfect pop while not taking themselves too seriously. You have to hope this level of accomplishment has to be something you're born with but if it was instilled into them at Macca's Liverpool School of Performing Arts, where Matthew Murphy, Dan Haggis and Tord Overland Knudsen met, their teachers deserve a lifetime achievement award from every music awards committee going. Which is quite a lot, these days.
Their sound is a perfect fusion of more styles than should work together well, from rock'n'roll to garage to the jerky pop rock of new wave-via-Franz-and-the-Kaisers, no doubt partly due to mixer Rich Costey, who's worked with the former, and producer Stephen Harris, who's sorted out the latter. In between, there's the Scouse parochialism of Penny Lane, the tempo of Ian Dury and The Blockheads and a love of stuffed marsupials that's all their own.
The Wombats are a rare gem. Catchy enough for the charts, indie enough for the music press, sarcastic enough for the miserable sods who moan that music was better when it came on slabs of black plastic, fresh enough for the kids who are getting a bit fed up with Arctic Monkeys and, best of all, clever enough to get Joy Division fans onto the dancefloor in a more original way than Bernard Sumner ever thought of. And with better tunes.
~Release by The Wombats(see all versions of this release, 6 available)
Annotation
Contains a bizarre pregap track. Frontline commando d day unlimited money apk.
Suboptimal Credits
- Management by SB Management - SB Management
- Additional A&R by Dave Fawbert
Additional Performances
- has reindeer impressions with sleigh bells attached to back performed by Matthew Murphy
- Dan Haggis and Tord Øverland-Knudsen's other vocal is whistling
- has additional claps and rhythmical gems by Alex, Steve, Daniel, Bobbett, Dave and John
Disc ID Notes
- Management by SB Management - SB Management
- Additional A&R by Dave Fawbert
Additional Performances
- has reindeer impressions with sleigh bells attached to back performed by Matthew Murphy
- Dan Haggis and Tord Øverland-Knudsen's other vocal is whistling
- has additional claps and rhythmical gems by Alex, Steve, Daniel, Bobbett, Dave and John
Disc ID Notes
The Wombats A Guide To Love Loss And Desperation Zip Code
Disc ID 39yChFw.v1PAw3_L23b4bGKvg7o- is not a homebrew - verified against official CD by bplatt
Tracklist
| ▼ CD 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Rating | Length |
| 0 | Talking and Drinking | 2:48 | |
| 1 | Tales of Girls, Boys & Marsupials
| 3 | 1:10 |
| 2 | Kill the Director
| 2:42 | |
| 3 | Moving to New York
| 3 | 3:31 |
| 4 | Lost in the Post
| 3:06 | |
| 5 | Party in a Forest (Where's Laura?)
| 3:27 | |
| 6 | School Uniforms
| 3:14 | |
| 7 | Here Comes the Anxiety
| 2:31 | |
| 8 | Let's Dance to Joy Division
| 4 | 3:11 |
| 9 | Backfire at the Disco
| 3:13 | |
| 10 | Little Miss Pipedream
| 3 | 4:12 |
| 11 | Dr Suzanne Mattox PhD
| 3:32 | |
| 12 | Patricia the Stripper
| 4:01 | |
| 13 | My First Wedding
| 6:38 |
Credits
CD 1
The Wombats A Guide To Love Loss And Desperation Zip File
| choir vocals: | |
|---|---|
| composer: | Dan Haggis (tracks 1–13) Matthew Murphy(member of the Wombats) (tracks 1–13) |
| lyricist: | Tord Øverland-Knudsen (track 1) Matthew Murphy(member of the Wombats) (tracks 1–13) |
| mixer: | Michael H. Brauer(engineer) (track 3) |
| producer: | Stephen Harris(mixer/producer) (tracks 1–8, 10–13) The Wombats(UK indie rock band) (tracks 1–13) |
| publisher: | |
| recording of: | Backfire at the Disco (track 9) Here Comes the Anxiety (track 7) Let's Dance to Joy Division (track 8) Lost in the Post (track 4) My First Wedding (track 13) Patricia the Stripper (track 12) Tales of Girls, Boys & Marsupials (track 1) |
Release
| art direction and graphic design: | Mercy Design |
|---|---|
| design/illustration: | Jonathan Greenbank |
| additional photography: | Kazumichi Kokei Mark McNulty |
| photography: | David J Colbran |
| assistant mixer: | Will Hensley(Engineer) Claudius Mittendorfer(Engineer, Producer, Mixer) Charlie Stavish(American producer and engineer) |
| mixer: | Kyle McInnis |
| additional engineer: | Daniel Eriksen(engineer) |
| assistant engineer: | Ben Cunningham Simon Dawson(engineer) John Prestage(engineer) Raj Daz |
| engineer and recording engineer: | Stephen Harris(mixer/producer) |
| additional recording engineer: | Claudius Mittendorfer(Engineer, Producer, Mixer) |
| additional mastering: | Frank Arkwright(UK mastering engineer) |
| mastering: | Chris Athens(mastering) Howie Weinberg(mastering engineer) |
| bass guitar, cello and synthesizer: | Tord Øverland-Knudsen |
| Dubreq Stylophone, harmonica, melodica, membranophone, piano and synthesizer: | Dan Haggis |
| guitar, piano and synthesizer and vocals: | Matthew Murphy(member of the Wombats) |
| background vocals and other vocals: | Dan Haggis Tord Øverland-Knudsen |
| recorded at: | Brick Lane Studios in London, England, United Kingdom Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, New York, New York, United States RAK Studios in London, England, United Kingdom Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom |
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| mixed at: | Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, New York, New York, United States Quad Recording Studios in New York, New York, United States The Cottage(Kilham) in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| mastered at: | Masterdisk in New York, New York, United States Metropolis(London) in London, England, United Kingdom Sterling Sound(split/relocated to Nashville and Edgewater studios in 2018, but NY studio planned to reopen in 2019) in New York, New York, United States |
| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/1135985[info] |
|---|---|
| ASIN: | UK: B000TZGQKE[info] |
Release Group
| artist & repertoire support: | Alex H.N. Gilbert(A&R at UK label 14th Floor Records) |
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| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/master/219001[info] |
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| reviews: | https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/gpjw[info] |
| Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000788739[info] |
| Wikidata: | Q2324442[info] |
