Murph from The Wombats is stepping out with a brand new project, Love Fame Tragedy: "Everything's still cut from the same loaf of bread"

We all know Matthew 'Murph' Murphy as the frontman of indie-darlings The Wombats, but it would appear as if we have a new reason to love the man.

After a couple of cryptic social media accounts appeared during the last month or so with the moniker 'Love Fame Tragedy', the game was afoot. With fans receiving further mysterious messages and images around the same title, things were finally unveiled to be none other than Murph dipping his toes into a new musical endeavour.

Exactly what Love Fame Tragedy stands for becomes clear once you delve into his debut EP, 'I Don't Want To Play The Victim, But I'm Good At It' - a power-pop tour-de-force through the life and times of Murph and his new life out in LA, there's a renewed sense of vigour that bounds outward.

It also features some familiar names such as Pixies' Joey Santiago, and Alt-J's Gus Unger-Hamilton adding their flourishes - but this wasn't an exercise in just name-dropping. "Why not utilise some of the really talented people I've met along this last fifteen-year journey? It was more, 'Hey, do you want to come round and have a bottle of wine and play on this?'"

None of this is to say that The Wombats are done - far from it, especially given their triumphant date at London's Wembley Arena last year - but when you've been a band for fifteen years, it's nice to shake things up a bit, and for Murph that brings a whole new world of opportunity.