Where the Action Is is the thirteenth studio album by the Waterboys, released by Cooking Vinyl on 24 May 2019.

It was followed by music videos for the title track in April and "Ladbroke Grove Symphony" in May.

[6] Upon release, Timothy Monger of AllMusic felt the album "continued [Scott's] unexpected dalliance with dance and hip-hop-influenced rhythms" like the preceding Out of All This Blue album, but while "also delivering the more straightforward rock bangers and folk-infused introspections that are his bread and butter".

He concluded: "Where the Action Is is another reliably interesting and well-written addition to the band's latter-day renewal.

[10] Guy Oddy of The Arts Desk concluded: "Scott may no longer be the young man who gave us "Don't Bang the Drum" and "A Girl Called Johnny" but he is far from being a Bono-like pompous windbag and on this evidence, he's not only not finished, but he may yet achieve the same mythic status of some of his own great influences.