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[POP] Now well into the second year of touring 2015’s Glitterbug (which was initially intended for release on 2014), Liverpudlian dance-pop mavens The Wombats are finally making their way to Buffalo next Monday, August 8, for a gig at the Waiting Room. Key songwriter and front man Matthew “Murph” Murphy has revealed the blend of fact and fiction at the album’s core, admitting that his life was running somewhat smoothly when it came time to write new material. Without an intriguing struggle, he had to create a fictitious storyline about angsty L.A. The record label didn’t like his use of “Vicodin on a Sunday night,” as a romantic analogy, but he stuck to his guns and the lyric stayed. In the end, the line (from “Give Me a Try”) is just one in a series of memorable comparisons running through an album of catchy pop tunes that never quite sinks into guilty pleasure territory.