Louisville’s most unclassifiable rock trio Wombo will release their fourth album, Danger in Fives, this Friday. The project marks the band’s first release since zagging a bit in 2023 with their four-song Slab EP, which closed on a hushed note of acoustic indie-folk, yet both of the singles so far revealed from Fives serve as familiar capsules of the band’s transfixing formula that turns post-punk on its head.
And the record’s third and final pre-release single “S.T. Tilted” is no different—the three-and-a-half minute cut once again strikes a surprising balance between unconventional percussion, ominous guitar, and cryptic lyrics (in this case the repeated mantra of “And with a tilted head, try to regain balance / Turn on it now and then, quietly to open”). As guitarist Cameron Lowe notes, it was the first composition the band wrote post-Slab that made the final cut for Fives. “We weren't sure it was going to work, but all the contrasting parts ended up being cool,” he shares. “It’s rare for a Wombo song to be written on guitar first like this one, with some of the bass and drum parts jammed out in the basement afterwards. The wacky guitar part came last.”
The track’s music video—which was directed by Lowe and filmed in vocalist/bassist Sydney Chadwick’s garage—features the band performing and sitting around a single-room set that lands somewhere between a doctor’s office’s waiting room and the house from Blue’s Clues. Check it out below, and pre-order Danger in Fives ahead of its release this Friday via Fire Talk here.
