The members are Matthew Murphy (lead vocals, guitar, nose harp and keyboards), Dan Haggis (drums, percussion, keyboards and backing vocals) and Tord Øverland-Knudsen (bass guitar, guitar, keyboards and backing vocals).
They started their career very slowly, until their single Let's Dance To Joy Division an received an NME Award for Best Dancefloor Filler.
Their other hits Moving To New York and Kill The Director, were both released firstly in 2007 but were both re-released in 2008, respectively on January 14 and July 7.
The Wombats debut album (The Wombats Proudly Present:) A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, released in November 2007, being very well received by critics.
An EP was released an year later - The Wombats EP.
Their second album (The Wombats Proudly Present:) This Modern Glitch was released on April 25, 2011.
The album had a very positive review by critics. Mark Beaumont from BBC Music said "Just as comedy actors, no matter how massive their crowd-draw or how enjoyable their movies, stand a popsicle-in-Hell's chance of ever winning an Oscar, it's virtually unthinkable that the second album from Liverpool's The Wombats will grace the higher echelons of any end-of-year polls or the Mercury shortlist. They cross too many boxes – they're shamelessly radio-friendly and insanely melodic, they have a 'wacky' name and they’re simply too popular/ist to garner much of a credible critical vote. On the contrary, that scraping sound you can hear is the widespread music media dragging their shovels towards This Modern Glitch intending to bury – largely unheard and with extreme prejudice – the leading exponents of what the trolls have deemed "landfill indie"."
1996 is the sixth single taken from the album, and was released on November 7, with the video published on The Wombats' official Youtube on September 26.
"She kissed me on the cheek
She kissed me on the cheek
Right in front of the older kids
When my self-belief, my self belief
Wasn't scarred by the modern itch"
