- indie rock
- 44 min
- 13 tracks
- 14th Floor Records
The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, usually shortened to A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, is the debut international studio album by English rock band the Wombats.
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Character
Spare, character-led, classical in form and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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Metacritic 65/100
- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Digital Spy4/5 ★
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- LAUNCHcast(7/10)
- NME(7/10)
- Pitchfork Media(5.9/10)
- Spin3.5/5 ★
- stv.tv3/5 ★
- This Is Fake DIY4/5 ★
- Yahoo! Music UK3.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Tales of Girls, Boys & Marsupials1:10
- 2Kill the Director2:42
- 3Moving to New York3:31
- 4Lost in the Post3:06
- 5Party in a Forest (Where’s Laura?)3:27
- 6School Uniforms3:14
- 7Here Comes the Anxiety2:31
- 8Let’s Dance to Joy Division3:11
- 9Backfire at the Disco3:13
- 10Little Miss Pipedream4:12
- 11Dr Suzanne Mattox PhD3:32
- 12Patricia the Stripper4:01
- 13My First Wedding6:38
13 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Wombats
- Label
- 14th Floor Records
- Released
- 2007
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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