Wet Leg’s highly anticipated second album is out on New Music Friday – revisit Live4ever’s review and stream it right here.
Our friends (yes we have friends here, stop that sniggering at the back) are sometimes less than complementary about Wet Leg.
Over a well-earned Aperol Spritz or three down the 45RPM bar on a Friday, whenever they come up in conversation you will always hear the deadpanned line, “You’re so woke/Diet Coke”, from their song Oh No, as if we all haven’t written at least one lyric we haven’t regretted after.
Associations like that are for some hard to shake off, even if Chaise Lounge remains so imprinted on our collective consciences that four years later it still needs no introduction.
Much as, Wet Leg have explained in the run up to Moisturizer’s release, has changed since though.
Firstly, the weird are-they-a-duo-or-are-they-a-band thing has been resolved, with touring Wet-ers Josh Mobaraki, Henry Holmes and Ellis Durand signing up full time on guitars, drums and bass respectively.
The next thing on the list was whether the formula of their eponymous debut album had sufficient erm…legs for a repeat.
The answer is that Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers have responded by ditching the former’s lyrical awkwardness, swapping it for street words and fighting talk.
Musically, the saccharine quirkiness is also consigned to the near distant past.
Click here for the review in full
