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

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

New song really really really not at the level of Chaise Longue

I wonder how much people would be talking about these two songs if they were the new singles by, like, the Breeders or Warpaint or even Dry Cleaning. I really fail to hear what's supposed to be so special about this beyond "whoa, new thing!"

+1 for "not getting it at all"

I imagine people my age would be talking about the funny new Breeders single a lot, people the age of the band Wet Leg would probably just tell their parents that band they like has a new funny song.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/wet-leg-named-ambassadors-for-independent-venue-week-2022-3080853

this band has released TWO SONGS

I get that they feel like a new exciting and distinct proposition in the greater "UK indie" landscape but this is odd.

Every generation needs its “Where’s me Jumper?”

They will get really sick of doing it when the touring kicks in.

'Smoko' was surely this generation's Where's Me Jumper?. Maybe there's an allocation for one per hemisphere.

Sometimes elevated presentation is enough

i don't mind this band or these songs, but this is otm:

I wonder how much people would be talking about these two songs if they were the new singles by, like, the Breeders or Warpaint or even Dry Cleaning. I really fail to hear what's supposed to be so special about this beyond "whoa, new thing!"

― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:54 AM (two weeks ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/30/wet-leg-omeara-london-review

According to the band, they formed at the top of a ferris wheel, drunk, after a 2019 Idles festival set.

Chambers and Teasdale might have named themselves after a loss of bladder control – there is a wicked ick factor to a lot of their lyrics – but “wet leg” could equally describe the ejaculatory critical response to them.

I assumed the latter, but am curious myself.

Or maybe she just spilled her diet coke

Wet Dream has grown on me, I hope there's a live video coming from the festival above.

"Why does band X get this attention but not band Y" is such a dead end to go down. The Breeders had a platinum record (almost) 30 years ago, Warpaint is big, not hard to imagine why this version of sprechgesang is more approachable than Dry Cleaning (or Billy Nomates or Lithics or etc.).

Dry Cleaning haven't, to my knowledge, done anything close to as immediate or as catchy as this one. I totally get why it's popular although yeah I also don't think it's THAT remarkable beyond a certain amount of strange novelty. It's a juggernaut though, isn't it? I'm getting it advertised to heavily on social and I'm going to guess that most non-rock music fans I know are aware of it.

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.