I'd say that this is the darkest song review I'd ever wrote.

It was 2007, and as the lyrics blasted out of the radio, I felt an automatic connection with the band on the other side. It wasn't Joy Division or The Smiths, I was never that cool, it was The Wombats. "Don't talk to girls they'll break your heart" was the first line I heard and it's stuck in my head ever since. I was 17 and in love, but she wasn't anymore, and as I downloaded their album and listened through for the first time, I felt I had finally found a band who conveyed how I felt at that time in my life. Songs of lost love, feeling alienated and most importantly, messing things up with girls were perfectly conveyed in the aptly titled album 'A guide to Love, Loss and Desperation'.

I never got a chance to see them live the first time round, and so when I saw that 20 extra tickets had gone on sale for their sold out gig at Leeds Met I decided now was the time to see the band that got me through my first broken heart.

It's been 4 years since their last album, and although a few singles have been released, I didn't know what to expect before I heard their new material. I was hoping for some punchy indie pop with lyrics that would take me back to my youth. I didn't exactly get that, but what I did get was something much better.

The band have changed their music style slightly for the new album 'This Modern Glitch', not too much that you can't recognise it's the Wombats, but just enough to see that they've matured. Maybe it's too early to say the new album is going to be a huge success and as good as their first, but from what I heard live, the songs sounded as catchy and clever as the last.

There's been a few leaks on the internet of songs from the new album, which back this up. One in particular 'Addicted to The Cure' caught my attention, as the title suggests a nod to the song from their previous album, 'Lets Dance to Joy Division', and a theme running through the band's albums of classic English band names slipping into their song titles.

The new songs seem to have a stronger electro sound to them than the previous with lead singer Matt Murphy, taking it in turns to play the guitar and the synth. But the classic Wombats sound is still apparant. Again the lyrics talk of lost love and other teenage troubles, in a tounge in cheek but truthful style. Whether the songs are autobiographical to the band, is unknown, but if they're not they are definately biographical to me and a few thousand other guys in the World I'm sure. I feel like the band have grown up with me. Where songs about school uniforms once stood, they are replaced with new ones about taking girls to sleazy hotel rooms. Thier latest single 'Anti-D' tackles depression, but the video shows the band aren't taking things too seriously.

The songs they played off the new album seemed definite crowd pleasers from the word go, with many singing along already before the album has even been released. One of my favourites being 'Valentine'. But the crowd really went crazy when some of the classic tracks from the first album were played. 'Let's dance to Joy Division', 'Moving to New York' and of course 'Kill the Director' all had the crowd jumping and singing along, me included.

James Corden of all people said during the Brits that "there's nothing quite like the feeling when you're listening to a song, written by someone you don't know, who you've never met, who somehow manages to describe exactly how you felt at a particular moment in your life." For me this is the band that do that. They may not be the greatest or the coolest band around, but for me The Wombats convey my feelings through song, time and time again, and I can not wait for their new album to give me new lyrics to take with me through the good and the bad times in my life.