Fix Yourself, Not the World by Wombats

Fix Yourself, Not the World, the fifth studio album from Liverpool's the Wombats, landed on AWAL on 14 January 2022 as the follow-up to Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life. It's still the trio that started the band in 2003: Matthew Murphy singing and playing guitar, Tord Øverland Knudsen on bass and Dan Haggis on drums, with all three chipping in on keyboards and backing vocals.

The trick here is bright, bouncing indie hooks set against song titles as gloomy as "Everything I Love Is Going to Die" and "Worry". Four singles paved the way, "Method to the Madness" and "If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming with You" among them, and a tour of America, Europe and Australia followed. The payoff came fast: nearly two decades in, it gave the Wombats their first number-one album, topping both the main UK chart and the independent chart in its opening week.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.