Fix Yourself, Not the World | ||||
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Released | 14 January 2022 | |||
Studio | None (recorded remotely from London, Los Angeles, and Oslo) | |||
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Length | 40:31 | |||
Label | AWAL | |||
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Singles from Fix Yourself, Not the World | ||||
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Fix Yourself, Not the World is the fifth studio album by English rock band the Wombats, released on 14 January 2022. It was preceded by the singles "Method to the Madness", "If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming with You", "Ready for the High", and "Everything I Love Is Going to Die". Music videos were also released for the tracks "This Car Drives All By Itself" and "Worry". The album was supported by a tour throughout America, Europe, and Australia during 2022. [2] [3]
The album debuted atop the UK Albums and UK Independent Albums charts with 13,812 units in its first week. [4]
The album began when all members were together in Los Angeles in 2019 and wrote several songs. [5] It was then recorded remotely during several COVID-19 lockdowns beginning in 2020, with each band member in a different location: Matthew Murphy in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen in Oslo and drummer Dan Haggis in London. They made a plan each day before separately recording their parts and sending them on to the producers. [6] Haggis said that the band "explored new genres and pushed ourselves further than ever musically" on the album. [7]
The cover art for the album and its singles was created by German–American pixel art collective eBoy. Kai Vermehr of eBoy said that he "collected loose ideas" from Murphy and the other band members, and the artwork came together without having "a detailed plan" but through "more of a discovery process". [8]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 6.8/10 [9] |
Metacritic | 72/100 [10] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Clash | 8/10 [11] |
The Guardian | [12] |
MusicOMH | [13] |
NME | [14] |
No Ripcord | 2/10 [15] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 72, based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [10] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 6.8 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. [9]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Flip Me Upside Down" | 3:13 | ||
2. | "This Car Drives All by Itself" |
| Lee | 4:45 |
3. | "If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming with You" |
| Crew | 2:49 |
4. | "Ready for the High" |
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| 4:05 |
5. | "Method to the Madness" |
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| 4:33 |
6. | "People Don't Change People, Time Does" |
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| 3:01 |
7. | "Everything I Love Is Going to Die" |
| Crew | 3:20 |
8. | "Work Is Easy, Life Is Hard" |
| Meany | 3:16 |
9. | "Wildfire" |
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| 3:29 |
10. | "Don't Poke the Bear" |
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| 3:07 |
11. | "Worry" |
| Lee | 3:10 |
12. | "Fix Yourself, Then the World (Reach Beyond Your Fingers)" |
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| 1:43 |
Total length: | 40:31 |
Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [16] | 2 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [17] | 89 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [18] | 38 |
Scottish Albums (OCC) [19] | 2 |
UK Albums (OCC) [20] | 1 |
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [21] | 1 |
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