Editor’s Note: Welcome to On Sale @, a weekly series from Vanyaland alerting concertgoers to the best shows coming toCitizens House of Blues. Check in each week for a highlighted look at each show, and how to access the best tickets as soon as they go on sale.
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The Wombats, Oh! The Ocean Tour, November 14
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again (and again): All The Wombats do is crank out jam after jam after jam. We’re all sitting here paralyzed by the world around us, and the English band is perhaps experiencing a creative peak — nearly 20 years after formation. Now Murph and the boys have a new record out now called Oh! The Ocean, and they show it off here in the States with a tour that rolls into Boston’s Citizens House of Blues on November 14. And the American vibe runs deep, as the album was recorded in Los Angeles, inspiring its title. “I’ve been to many beaches and seas and coasts over the years but for some reason it felt like the first time I had ever seen it and was truly present,” says Murph. “There was this revelation that I had been living a life caught up in my own head, or in some kind of racing helmet or with blinkers on. It was really a potent experience. I felt like I saw everything new for the first time, and was aware that I had been so selfish to not take in how crazy the world and life is. I’d been caught up in my own BS for way too long… The album offers up some internal questions like: Why are my head and body disconnected all the time? Why am I incapable at times of seeing any form of beauty in the world or in others? Why do I expect the world to conform to my will? Why do I never stop and smell the flowers? How am I conscious? That’s why I called album six Oh! The Ocean.” Tickets go on sale Friday (February 28) at 10 a.m. local time.
