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Track List
01) Cheetah Tongue
02) Lemon to a Knife Fight
03) Turn
04) Black Flamingo
05) White Eyes
06) Lethal Combination
07) Out of My Head
08) I Only Wear Black
09) Ice Cream
10) Dip You in Honey
11) I Dont Know Why I Like You but I Do
01) Cheetah Tongue
02) Lemon to a Knife Fight
03) Turn
04) Black Flamingo
05) White Eyes
06) Lethal Combination
07) Out of My Head
08) I Only Wear Black
09) Ice Cream
10) Dip You in Honey
11) I Dont Know Why I Like You but I Do
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4:13
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First Released
2018
Indie Rock
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"Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life" is the fourth studio album by British rock band The Wombats, released 9th February 2018.
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Melodically, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life is as catchy and hook-drenched as any of their previous releases, and in some cases, most notably “White Eyes,” “Dip You in Honey,” (though, is it me or does the main riff sound a lot like Oasis?) and album closer “I Don’t Know Why I Like You
But I Do,” more guitar-driven than ever before. Songs like lead single “Lemon to a Knife Fight” and album opener “Cheetah Tongue” are obvious examples of the band’s consistent and gradual musical evolution, both lyrically quirky and musically catchy but with a more mature approach to instrumentation and song structure.
For all that musical and melodical growth, lyrically this album seems like a step backwards. Gone are the clever combinations of metaphors and youthful desperation, replaced here by much more obvious (and boring) phrasing, and with all the quirky desperation of Murphy’s past failed (and idiosyncratic) relationships replaced by much less creative (“bog-standard,” as they’d say on that side of the pond) and more direct lovelorn complaining. Maturity breeds a different type of feeling, surely, but in this case it has also stagnated Murphy’s usually-brilliant comparative phrasing. Falsetto-filled “Black Flamingo” is the most unfortunate example of this, including the refrain “I want to love you but it hurts, hurts, hurts . . .” You’re better than that, Matthew.
Overall, this is a solid album musically with a lot of obvious growth and maturity, but minus much of the quirky lyrical urgency that has come to be a hallmark of the band. Still a very solid release, but not nearly as lyrically arresting or even laugh-out-loud as past offerings.
Reviewed for spillmagazine.com.
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"Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life" is the fourth studio album by British rock band The Wombats, released 9th February 2018.
User Album Review
Melodically, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life is as catchy and hook-drenched as any of their previous releases, and in some cases, most notably “White Eyes,” “Dip You in Honey,” (though, is it me or does the main riff sound a lot like Oasis?) and album closer “I Don’t Know Why I Like You
But I Do,” more guitar-driven than ever before. Songs like lead single “Lemon to a Knife Fight” and album opener “Cheetah Tongue” are obvious examples of the band’s consistent and gradual musical evolution, both lyrically quirky and musically catchy but with a more mature approach to instrumentation and song structure.
For all that musical and melodical growth, lyrically this album seems like a step backwards. Gone are the clever combinations of metaphors and youthful desperation, replaced here by much more obvious (and boring) phrasing, and with all the quirky desperation of Murphy’s past failed (and idiosyncratic) relationships replaced by much less creative (“bog-standard,” as they’d say on that side of the pond) and more direct lovelorn complaining. Maturity breeds a different type of feeling, surely, but in this case it has also stagnated Murphy’s usually-brilliant comparative phrasing. Falsetto-filled “Black Flamingo” is the most unfortunate example of this, including the refrain “I want to love you but it hurts, hurts, hurts . . .” You’re better than that, Matthew.
Overall, this is a solid album musically with a lot of obvious growth and maturity, but minus much of the quirky lyrical urgency that has come to be a hallmark of the band. Still a very solid release, but not nearly as lyrically arresting or even laugh-out-loud as past offerings.
Reviewed for spillmagazine.com.
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