They lean into the brilliant silliness of Chaise Longue by reappearing in black academic gowns and mortarboards. Wet Leg was recorded in April 2021, before the band had even played live, with Speedy Wunderground's Dan Carey acting as main producer. Apparently they barely had time to meet their future label, Domino, because they were too busy “rolling around in the grass doing teddy bear rolls with the guitars. Authors, BrooklynVegan StaffBrooklynVegan StaffContributing; SacherAm, rew; Pearis, a HatfieldAmy GeigerBill (14 December 2022).

One great pleasure tonight is seeing female friends around the venue shout lyrics at each other, like myriad mirror versions of Teasdale and Chambers. I thought about the wrongness of it; these are two young women who are singing about sex, but they're dressed like schoolmarms. Ganz: I don't know, it's never embarrassing when I climb on the hood of a car and lick the windshield. Wet Leg— the Isle of Wight duo made up of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers — have finally announced their self-titled debut, out April 8, 2022. And I thought too about artists like Su Tissue and Exene Cervenka, '80s artists who wore aprons on stage and contorted a conservative piece of clothing into something punk rock.When a squall of noise boils over at the end of “Angelica,” a song about a shit party, Teasdale sings blithely about “Good times/All the time”—it’s “We Can’t Stop” with Red Stripe and wallflowers. The 2,300-capacity Forum must have been booked before everything kicked off but they’ve wisely decided to stick with the smaller venues while they still can. That song in particular really made me think of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her [show] Fleabag, and Waller-Bridge is someone who's really mastered the ability to go to that dark moment and deliver true pathos. Powers: I don't think Wet Leg's success is going to lead to rock coming back to the center of anything. Domino will not sell your personal information to third parties or use it for purposes not set out in this Privacy Policy.

You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy , external and privacy policy , external before accepting. It's like globalist locavorism — they can make commerce or product out of anything, but they're choosing a really precise row of influences to do that within.It was written in 2019 [12] in a single day by vocalist Rhian Teasdale while she was sitting on an actual chaise longue owned by guitarist Hester Chambers's grandfather. This Privacy Policy sets out how Domino collects and processes the personal information you provide while using the Site. Each song is expertly engineered to deliver multiple hits of pleasure, half of which derive from Teasdale’s ability to twist a syllable just so.

It was promoted by the viral hit " Chaise Longue", followed by the singles " Wet Dream", " Too Late Now", "Oh No", "Angelica", and "Ur Mum". As alluring and insouciant as those California boys Stephen Malkmus and Spiral Stairs were in 1992, Wet Leg's front duo of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers seemed to emerge fully-formed last summer with their sexy and silly single "Chaise Longue. This Privacy Policy does not address and we are not responsible for, the privacy information or other practices of any third-party (including Facebook, Inc. Primarily an indie rock, [13] post-punk, [14] alternative rock, [15] Britpop, [14] post-punk revival, [16] indie pop, [17] and punk pop album, [18] Wet Leg takes influence from a variety of other genres, particularly '90s and '00s indie and garage pop. Powers: We should talk about the band's visuals, starting with the video for "Chaise Longue," which really was as much part of their breakthrough as the sound of the song.Not literally, but in that lipstick-traces way in which all popular culture reflects many elements of its own past. They repel seriousness, claiming they only started the band for fun—on top of a Ferris wheel at a music festival, no less—and their songs mean next to nothing. It's perhaps calculated, perhaps not, in a pop landscape where so much is exposed, not just emotionally, as we talked about before, but in terms of bodies, right?