A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
by The Wombats
- Type: Album
- Released: 5 November 2007
- Label: 14th Floor
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 44:30
- Community rating: 2.59/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: Tord Overland-Knudsen, Stephen Harris, Jimmy Robertson, Dan Haggis, Matthew Murphy, The Wombats Percussion Section
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Capitalizing on the frantic, dance-punk energy of the mid-2000s, the Liverpool trio delivered an incredibly infectious, chart-topping debut. Packed with sardonic wit, the album masks themes of romantic failure and youthful anxiety behind massive, bouncy indie-pop anthems.
Genres
Tracklist
- Talking And Drinking
- Tales Of Girls, Boys & Marsupials (1:10)
- Kill The Director (2:42)
- Moving To New York (3:31)
- Lost In The Post (3:06)
- Party In A Forest (Where's Laura?) (3:27)
- School Uniforms (3:14)
- Here Comes The Anxiety (2:31)
- Let's Dance To Joy Division (3:12)
- Backfire At The Disco (3:13)
- Little Miss Pipedream (4:12)
- Dr Suzanne Mattox PhD (3:32)
- Patricia The Stripper (4:02)
- My First Wedding (6:38)
Credits
- Tord Overland-Knudsen - bass, synthesizer, cello, whistling, backing vocals
- Dan Haggis - drums, piano, harmonica, melodica, synthesizer, whistling, backing vocals, Dubreq Stylophone harmonica melodica membranophone piano synthesizer, background vocals other vocals vocal
- Matthew Murphy - guitar, synthesizer, piano, vocals, written-by, lyrics by, guitar piano synthesizer, vocal
- Jonathan Greenbank - illustration, artwork by [handwriting]
- The Wombats Percussion Section - percussion
- Tord 脴verland-Knudsen - bass guitar cello synthesizer, background vocals other vocals vocal