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The Wombats have returned with the details of a six-track EP titled ‘Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?’, announcing it alongside a visualiser for the title track.On the breezy new song’s origins, frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy said in a press release: “I remember driving past an extremely rundown hotel and wondering what the hell could be going on in there, and that’s where this song was born. It’s about catching someone in a compromising situation that’s very unusual for their specific character and is far more fitting for your own.”Check out the visualiser for ‘Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?’ below:The full EP – described as the band’s “rawest material yet, trading polished synths for spiky guitar riffs and heavy choruses” – will be out on November 18 via AWAL, with a vinyl pressing set to accompany its digital release.It was largely produced by bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen, who worked on and mixed the record in his Norway studio, following UK sessions co-produced by Knudsen, Murph and drummer Dan Haggis.

If technology advanced to the stage that dreams and thoughts could be examined, Bastille's relentlessly creative leader Dan Smith would make a fascinating test subject. “Sometimes it can be slightly like a pathology, having all these songs in your head all the time,” the Bastille frontman tells The FADER over Zoom.

Bastille have shared a new track called ‘What You Gonna Do???’ featuring Graham Coxon – listen to it below.The thumping new track comes on the heels of the band’s third studio album, ‘Doom Days’, and, according to frontman Dan Smith, was something they couldn’t wait to get out.“We finished the song and it felt urgent,” he explained. “We didn’t want to sit on it.”Produced by Smith and Mark Crew, ‘What You Gonna Do???’ features Blur‘s Graham Coxon on guitar and vocals, and is part of what Smith says in a new beginning for the band.“This next phase feels like a new beginning,” he said.