WET LEG a girl band from the Isle of Wight on Domino Records

Makes me feel like Art Brut is back and coming from me that's a compliment

The YT is a neat side eye at #cottagecore, I guess.

Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?

On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure why I like it so much. It feels assured and confident. I also find it very funny.

Yes, I also really love it, and I think its sense of humour and playfulness is a huge part of it. There is so little new music that feels fun, or funny.

Perhaps the finest song about lying on french furniture since Plastic Bertrand.

wow, what is this contemporary drivel

are we already post-dry cleaning?

Not sure I'd use the word drivel but yeah idgi either

I kinda dig the song, but ever since I first heard it I haven’t been able to pinpoint the song it reminds of...until now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdSQlCbJ90

omg yes

this is better than Dry Cleaning, imo

i'll give Dry Cleaning another chance tonight tho

I like the guitar more w/ Dry Cleaning but this is nice.

extraordinarily terrible band name

Weird, but I think I need to hear more songs by them to contextualize it? On its own, I'm not too moved, but if I had a more rounded idea of what their vision is, I might be able to frame it differently. Does that make sense? Dunno.

I kinda dig the song, but ever since I first heard it I haven’t been able to pinpoint the song it reminds of...until now:

extraordinarily terrible band name

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Yeah, I will never get how groups of ostensibly creative people come up with the most banal and forgettable band names

unless this is a regional idiom or perhaps a pun I am not getting

So far, Level 42 still the best band from the Isle of Wight but I'm prepared to be proved wrong.

The video is necessary to get the whole sleepy eyed sarcasm across, but the attitude here is an ace distillation of a despairing humor of trying to get your life started in this broken summer. Maybe a totally one-off, but a potent one, like Vivian Goldman’s Launderette or Wet Dog’s Lower Leg, who may have inspired the band name. Stuck in my head for days.

Dry Cleaning isn’t working for me. Did get me to relisten to Algebra Suicide though.

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue (Live at O2 Academy, Oxford - 24/08/21)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfHx1bpSck

geez i guess covid is over?

UK and US attitudes to Covid are very very different at this point, but Wet Leg do not appear to have a second song yet

I think both Wet Leggers are/have been associates of Plastic Mermaids who seem vaguely relevant to comrade imago's interests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3rIWOa55yc

Prefer my polyrhythmic synth textures when they're not underpinning some Coldplay bollocks ngl

Marveling at how short the blonde woman in the band is.

80% of adults in the UK double vaxxed, and people less beefy about showing vaccine status or rapid test to go to shows i guess... still know a lot of people hesitant to go to any though.

I liked the song the first couple times but do find it weird how they seem to be blowing up compared to all the other recent post-punk groups when they have one released song.

less chance to have bad songs if you only release one song

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/138/highresrollsafe.jpg

geez i guess covid is over?

Particularly in England, the vast majority do seem to think it is all over. Of course, everyone is going to catch Covid at some point so maybe going out to gigs / clubs is maybe just hastening the inevitable?

so wait they are playing shows despite only having one song? What do they do for the rest of the time onstage?

all night long all night long on the....

so this is out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpgJjdk52c

not loving it because it does kind of sound like a franz ferdinand song, but it's fun and thats okay

very standard UK indie with slightly elevated presentation?

― imago, Sunday, June 27, 2021 7:53 PM bookmarkflaglink

Hey, imago was right!

Should I be 'SPENDING TIME' with this band

Also, did a gen x'er write this? Buffalo 66 is a "you had to be there" 90s deep cut.

The Undertones would like their lobster bibs back.

https://images.eil.com/large_image/THE_UNDERTONES_HYPNOTISED%2B%2B%2BLOBSTER%2B-%2BEX-742797.jpg

Literally everything has to be a 90s reference now

Also, did a gen x'er write this? Buffalo 66 is a "you had to be there" 90s deep cut.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)

I found the lyrics to 'Chaise Longue' pretty cringe and that stopped me liking it but the line about B66 perfectly captures the sort of That Fucking Guy this song is about, I really like it.

Like, it is Cinema Guy who talks non-stop about '70s cinema, especially the "edgy shit", except updated. The '90s were 30 years ago, it's so totally the same thing for their generation.

Makes sense

I find this mildly more palatable but also less interesting than Chaise Longue

I think I've worked out the reason Chaise Longue annoys me is because the opening lines are almost identical to 'Pulled Up' by Talking Heads

Fell down a Vincent Gallo rabbit hole for a bit after watching. His website is really something. Not a good something, obv.

I actually watched The Brown Bunny for the first time last week. Thought it was a terrible self-indulgent mess until the ending, now have very mixed feelings about it, there is a nugget of something really good in there, but the cinematography was very poorly done.

Still love Buffalo 66 but no desire to check out anything else Gallo-related.

this song is horrendous

i love "chaise lounge", just think the way they built that song is great, just kinda simple but really effective songwriting. this new one i'm less sold on but i think they're pretty interesting

This is fun and mostly forgettable.

Damn was hoping i’d get to start the thread about this band.

I love them of course.

This live version of Chaise Longue that came out last week got a decent chuckle out of me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FELWZcmZw

Whatever they do with their career, I'm just eternally grateful to them for speaking the words chaise longue out loud because I've been running around calling it a chase lounge for eternity. I feel very continental now.

hah, that has endeared me to them (and the song) a fair bit I must say

that was good fun

There are plenty of "post-breakup bitterness"–themed songs in the world, but a few lyrics of "Loving You" can hang with the best of them:

I used to want to love you like you wanted me to
Now I wanna hate you like I tell you I do

Don't call me up, you fucked it up
I'm not your friend, I'm not your pal

(These lines are obv basic/plainspoken, but that's how they cut right to the heart of that particular feeling/scenario...)

Only just clocked that Harry's drummer was in New Young Pony Club.

They've crossed over to the local alternative/modern rock station, apparently. (I hit seek obv.)

I see we've reached the ILX Swiftie stage of typing out crushingly banal lyrics and calling them profound

lol, you're 2 much

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— shirts that go hard (@shirtsthtgohard) July 15, 2022

now do a wet leg version!!!!

yeah idg what makes those lyrics anything special

They're pop lyrics that express a universal/relatable feeling in an artfully simple way (as good pop lyrics can do). If they don't do that for you, no harm done.

(it also helps to, you know, hear them in the context of the song)

Because I'm bored/procrastinating, I'll expand (even tho it feels like explaining why a joke is funny, or something):

Don't call me up, you fucked it up is the kind of lyric that seems obvious once you hear it, but there are a thousand clumsier / less artful ways it could have been expressed... two phrases, each four single-syllable words, stuck together by the final "up"; used figuratively (in a different way) each time. If you were writing a song in which you tell an ex not to call you anymore, and it's their fault you're on bad terms, would you have thought of Don't call me up, you fucked it up?

I'm not your friend, I'm not your pal mocks the ex's attempt at staying in touch; it's a pointedly condescendingly way of throwing the phone calls back in their face. "I'm not your pal" says, in three simple words (and with an implied sneer), "how dare you pretend everything's cool, and that I'd still want to talk / hang out with you, after what you've done?"

And the first lyric captures the double-edged ambiguity of how she wasn't as into the relationship as the other person; but now she's trying to cut off her emotions and just hate them (after their cheating / breakup / whatever), and finding that she can't fully do that.

(and, again, it does that in two simple lines, with perfect economy)

I dunno, I prefer that song they do about taking a lasagna and a raygun to a party. Much more relatable imo.

See? Something for everyone

(…even whoever “You're so woke, Diet Coke” is for)

when they sing 'McDonalds! McDonalds!', this signifies that they would also like to eat food from McDonalds in addition to Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut

and with such economy too

You guys.

Their hype has died down pretty fast since the album came out, no?

do you mean "Do people talk about them?" Yes.

I actually think those seem better than the Wet Leg lyrics I have heard so far tbh.

I play the album more than I expected I would, it’s pretty solid beneath the obvious hooks.

i put “inbetweener” by sleeper on a recent playlist and always mistake it for wet leg until the chorus hits

This album is good, “Angelica” is a candidate for song of the year

On the flip side “Oh No” is a candidate for worst song of the year but it doesn’t ruin the album somehow

^^ Agree with both posts. I think 'Oh No' works within the context of the album but I'd never want to hear it on its own. I'd probably skip it if I had the CD but it's too much hassle on vinyl.

Yeah, I still think the pre-release singles (including “Chaise Lounge”) are the weakest tracks, but I’ve grown to like them well enough in the context on the album. Even “Oh No!”

I can’t think of another situation where I disliked all the singles, heard the album, and was like — “Wait a minute…”

(Although apparently “Too Late Now” was the 3rd single? I must have overlooked it, that one’s great)

Have you heard the Soulwax remix of Too Late Now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMvCsiP6EkY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dza9y6cg0

Really doesn't work without the bratty way the Chats dude says "smoko"

I can’t think of another situation where I disliked all the singles, heard the album, and was like — “Wait a minute…”

This is exactly what happened to me with Nine Inch Nails' Hesitation Marks. Hated every advance track, but loved them in the context of the album.

(Wet Leg sucks. I'm glad that Bandcamp Daily writer pasted them one.)

Nine Inch Nails sucks

Three Inch Nail IIRC

I wanted to like this but 40 minutes is very long

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/109046-008-A/wet-leg/

For a set?

They sold out their upcoming Atlanta show in a matter of minutes.

going to see 'em in San Antonio because I want to get in on the ground floor

Extra sleaze works for them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLrnkwRTaQQ

“Angelica” sounds great on Radio 1 at 8:22 in the morning

There’s something of the Stereolab in them imo

My wife has the CD in her car and it's certainly grown on me. I've been racking my branes and it dawned on me the other day: the band they remind me of more than anything is the Young Knives.