Friday Flash(back) - The Wombats - Oh! The Ocean

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The Wombats are an English indie rock band formed in Liverpool in 2003, consisting of Matthew Murphy (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Tord Øverland Knudsen (bass, backing vocals, keyboards), & Dan Haggis (drums, backing vocals, keyboards). 

The Wombats have sold over 1 million albums worldwide.

The Wombats released several EPs before working on their first full-length album Girls, Boys and Marsupials (2006), which was released only in Japan and featured some tracks that would reappear on their major-label debut studio album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation (2007). 

After releasing a self-titled EP in 2008 and touring for three years, they released the studio albums This Modern Glitch (2011), Glitterbug (2015), and Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (2018), all of which received mostly positive reviews. Their fifth album Fix Yourself, Not the World (2022) became their first No. 1 album, topping the UK Albums Chart within a week of release.

On September 27, 2024, The Wombats teased a new single, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come. It was released as the first single to their upcoming sixth studio album, Oh! The Ocean, which was released last Friday.

Let's get into some new and old ahead of the Friday Flash(back) tomorrow. Back for a limited for season for 2025.

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Friday Flash(back) - Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking

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Manic Street Preachers, are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986. 

The band consists of Nicky Wire (bass guitar, lyrics) and cousins James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Sean Moore (drums, percussion, soundscapes). 

Following the release of their debut single Suicide Alley in 1988, Manic Street Preachers became a quartet with the addition of Richey Edwards as co-lyricist and rhythm guitarist. 

The band's early releases were in a punk vein, eventually broadening to a wider alternative rock sound.

Their early combination of androgynous glam imagery and lyrics about, culture, alienation, boredom and despair gained them a loyal following.

Manic Street Preachers' first charting single was Motown Junk in 1991, followed by their debut album, Generation Terrorists, in February 1992. 

The band's next two albums were Gold Against the Soul in 1993 and The Holy Bible in 1994, the latter being the last album with Edwards, who disappeared in February 1995 and was legally presumed dead in 2008.

The band continued as a trio with Wire as primary lyricist, and achieved commercial success with the albums Everything Must Go (1996) and This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998).

The Manic Street Preachers have headlined festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and Reading, winning eleven NME Awards, eight Q Awards and four BRIT Awards.

They were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1996 and 1999, and have had one nomination for the MTV Europe Music Awards. 

The band has sold more than ten million albums worldwide.

The Manic Street Preachers have had two number one singles in the UK charts: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (1998) & The Masses Against the Classes (2000), as well as two number one albums: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021).

From 1991 to 2010, they had 33 consecutive top 40 singles in the UK.