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Taking their name from involuntary urination, it was clear that the Isle Of Wight’s Wet Leg – vocalist and guitarist Rhian Teasdale and guitarist and vocalist Hester Chambers – offered something different when they appeared in the woozy in-between lockdown periods of 2021.
Released last June, their debut single Chaise Longue already feels as if it has been around much longer; a modern classic that is being talked about as one of the all-time great career-openers, full of indie smarts and sing-speak phrasing that will forever date it to this time.
A heady brew of Stereo Total, Elastica, X-Ray Spex and influential-yet-still-to-break Girl Ray, Wet Leg come complete with backstory (met at college, friends for a decade, formed a band on the top of a big wheel), great name, great logo, a contract to Domino, and high-concept videos. (…)
Like Yard Act’s The Overload, Wet Leg’s debut album is simultaneously of its time, ahead of its time, and evokes past times. Their summation that it is sad music for party people, and party music for sad people, is apposite. What it is, undoubtedly, is enormously engaging.
Believe the Hype! Klasse Album! Klarer Anwärter auf Platte des Jahres. Nur das Cover finde ich nicht so toll.
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