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Looking at the sea during a family vacation, Matthew “Murph” Murphy, the singer of The Wombats, had an experience that deeply marked him. After a particularly difficult morning, he found himself alone on the beach, facing the immensity and tranquility of nature. He describes this moment as a kind of “spiritual mushroom experience,” in which he realized that he had spent far too much time locked up in his own head.

This revelation led him to ask questions about his anxiety, his need for control, his inability to fully enjoy the world and his tendency to run away from certain emotions. These thoughts are at the heart of Oh! The Ocean, the sixth album of The Wombats unveiled in 2025, which is a new step in their career.

Murph has always spoken openly about his problems with anxiety, depression, addiction and personal difficulties. On this new album, he addresses in particular his social malaise, his compulsive behaviors, his inner conflicts and his life at Los Angeles. But the tone is also more positive: he now seeks to face his problems rather than avoid them.

After more than twenty years of career, The Wombats is still a great success, especially with a very young audience. Since their debut with A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation in 2007, the band has been stringing together successful albums, international tours and concerts in major venues. Murph says he is surprised that their music continues to appeal to new generations. He jokes that they have “the bodies of men of 40 years and the souls of girls of 13 years.”

Oh! The Ocean also marks a musical change. The band partly abandons the electronic sounds of their previous albums in search of a warmer and more human sound. Together with the producer John Congleton, they recorded the pieces, giving priority to the complete takes and voluntarily keeping certain imperfections. Murph wanted it to feel like “three humans in a room playing their instruments.”

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