Album · Wombats
A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation by Wombats
A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation is an album by Wombats, released in 2007. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 9 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Let's Dance To Joy Division”, on 9 lists with a best position of #12.
A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, the Wombats' first album for the wider world, came out on 14th Floor on 5 November 2007, and plenty of it will be familiar to anyone who tracked down Girls, Boys and Marsupials, the Liverpool trio's Japan-only record from the year before. They cut it at Rockfield Studios, and it's a jittery, gleefully neurotic indie-pop sprint, with Matthew Murphy's yelped vocals and guitar, Tord Øverland Knudsen's bass and Dan Haggis's drums all racing for the next chorus.
"Let's Dance to Joy Division" is the anthem, a singalong made for sweaty student discos. Even the extras come with jokes: a hidden pregap has the band trying to make wine glasses ring and hamming up a mock advert for Beaujolais, and a bonus DVD caught them at South by Southwest. It reached number 11 in the UK and had sold 335,361 copies there by April 2015.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let's Dance To Joy Division | 9 | #12 | – | 2007–2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.