Wet Leg

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Ganz: I do think it's possible that playing live will change the band. It's interesting to remember that the record was made before anybody heard it — it was completely finished before anybody heard any of these songs. In The New York Times profile that was presented as something strange, but maybe it's rare in a valuable way to catch a band before there is any awareness of who they are out in the world. And maybe the pandemic allowed that to happen in a way that hasn't happened in more normal recent times. But in this album we have a document of a band that was not yet influenced by the public's demands for what they do in any way. They had not toured. They had not played live. They didn't have any songs on SoundCloud. They were a new thing and somebody had the great idea not to wait for them to evolve – to put them in a studio and capture that newness whole. a b c d Daly, Rhian (5 April 2022). "Wet Leg – 'Wet Leg' review: an instant classic debut that justifies the hype". NME . Retrieved 12 April 2022. Wet Leg is sad music for party people, and party music for sad people. It is cathartic and joyful and punk and scuzzy and above all, it's fun.

Authors, BrooklynVegan StaffBrooklynVegan StaffContributing; SacherAm, rew; Pearis, a HatfieldAmy GeigerBill (14 December 2022). "BrooklynVegan's Top 50 Albums of 2022". BrooklynVegan . Retrieved 23 December 2022.Wet Leg on famous friends Franz Ferdinand | The Evening Show with George Godfrey | Radio X How many singles have Wet Leg released? Slant Staff (7 December 2022). "The 50 Best Albums of 2022". Slant Magazine . Retrieved 23 December 2022. We use Google’s enhanced remarketing and reporting tools (Google signals) which includes anonymised data collection across multiple devices, when you are signed-in to your Google account. You can opt-out of Google advertising personalisation by visiting Google’s Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/ There are also a lot of moments on this album of real emotional vulnerability — an "I'm almost 28, I didn't expect my life to look this way" lyricism — but they never linger on them. Teasdale and Chambers wield that New Wave coldness aesthetically, and they don't really let the listener get close. Maybe I'm demanding too much emotional intimacy from them, because they're clearly a very playful band. But I think that emptiness also kind of contributes to my skepticism, and also because the imagery of the f***-up is so well-worn in pop culture, it's an experience that doesn't feel necessarily as sharp to me anymore.

a b c Empire, Kitty (2 April 2022). "Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – absurdist delights and damp squibs". The Observer . Retrieved 7 April 2022. Tenreyro, Tatiana (8 April 2022). "Wet Leg lives up to the hype on its debut LP". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 14 April 2022. We use the information collected using MiQ for ad personalisation and to obtain reporting and delivery of ad performance and effectiveness.to comply with local laws including when we believe in good faith the law requires such use and/or disclosure; a b Fox, Cassie (3 April 2022). "Wet Leg: Wet Leg: album review – Album of the Week!". Louder Than War . Retrieved 3 April 2022. Martoccio, Angie (28 February 2022). "Wet Leg's 'Angelica' May Sound Upbeat, But It's 'Laced With Disenchantment' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 5 April 2022. a b c d e f Danton, Eric R. (4 April 2022). "Wet Leg Are Sharp and Funny on Self-Titled Debut LP". Paste . Retrieved 7 April 2022. a b c Von Pip, Andy (30 August 2021). "Wet Leg on Their Debut Single "Chaise Longue" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 16 October 2021.

Wet Leg was recorded and produced in the main by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey (“Chaise Longue” and “Angelica” were produced by Jon McMullen and Josh Mobaraki respectively). The album was mostly recorded in London, in April 2021, meaning they had a finished album before the world had even heard debut single “Chaise Longue” or played live. Ganz: I hear friendship in the presentation. When you hear Chambers' voice, it's often in direct response to something Teasdale is saying. Chambers also plays the lead guitar on the record and so much of the melody and the fun and the attraction of the music is dependent on those guitar lines. Teasdale's vocals are so flat and monotone, but the songs get energy from the guitar. On many of the other songs, any melody that exists in the vocals is actually cribbed directly from the guitar line. So it does feel like there is a musical element where Chambers is that same kind of support, building a wall or building protection. a b Wolf, Erika (7 April 2022). "Wet Leg Craft a Flirty, Irreverent & Ennui-infused Feminist Ode to Best Friendship with Self-Titled Debut Album Review". Albumism . Retrieved 14 April 2022.We use this information to send you information regarding the Artist(s) and related activities which we think may be of legitimate interest to you. We may add you to a customer audience group to which we direct marketing communications and advertising via Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok relating to artist news which may be of interest to you.

The songs made by Wet Leg, fronted by Rhian Teasdale (left) and Hester Chambers sound like they come from nowhere, and also everywhere. Wet Leg on their first ever gig | The Evening Show with George Godfrey | Radio X How did Wet Leg meet? Cills: I have admittedly been skeptical of Wet Leg — not in the sense that I think they're an "industry plant," because those things don't really exist — but I do think Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers are very savvy and it's interesting that we're talking so much about the '80s, the era of the music video, because the pressures on artists to stand out in an overcrowded field and make a really strong visual and hook that can be looped on TikTok into a meme are more intense than ever. When I first heard "Chaise Longue" and I saw the video for it, I felt like I knew exactly what these girls were doing immediately. I could see their references, down to the clothes they were wearing and the ways in which they were singing about sex. Redfern, Mark (28 September 2021). "Wet Leg Share Surreal Video for New Song "Wet Dream" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 25 February 2022. a b Ruiz, Matthew Ismael (29 November 2021). "Wet Leg Announce Debut Album, Share New Video: Watch". Pitchfork . Retrieved 25 February 2022.Cills: This is why the term industry plant keeps getting thrown around by younger audiences because the music industry has changed so rapidly that younger audiences are used to an artist going viral and then they get signed and then they record material. The idea of someone having demos and shopping those to a label or before their career takes off is just foreign. It creates a kind of skepticism when a young person sees an artist and they're not already inundated with their body of work. Martoccio, Angie (1 February 2022). "Wet Leg Show Off 'the Good, the Bad, the Ugly' Social Media Comments in New Video". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 25 February 2022. Empire, Kitty (2 April 2022). "Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – absurdist delights and damp squibs". The Observer . Retrieved 23 April 2022.