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

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.

it's not like we're paying huge amounts of attention to what's otherwise going on in British indie music either

Really want to hear Kim Deal singing Chaise Longue now.

And now I want to hear Black Francis singing it.

[screaming:] Would ya like us to assign someone ta buttah ya muffin?
[four bars of asthmatic wheezing]

I mean "UMass" and "Chaise Longue" make kind of a good A-side/B-side "I Went To College And It Was OK" record

Trying to sleep but I've got this mashed up in my head with Beez In The Trap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB3PJwPMHzQ

OH MY GOD

they have a third song

Honestly though, what an absolute triumph of PR this has all been. The industry's still got it

Apparently they played seven songs at their Pfork Fest Paris show (doesn't say if they were all originals, ha ha).

But yeah I don't really "get it" w/r/t this particular band...

Here’s a fourth song, fwiw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl15P0qeBVk

"Oh my god, life is hard
credit card - oh no
You're so woke, Diet Coke
I feel gross - oh no"

brb gonna go drink some bleach

Never thought I’d hear the phrase “triumph of marketing” used about a 4AD release but we are a long way from the Ivo Watts-Russell years.

the emperor has no clothes a GET NAKED sign on their wall

oh no

Wet Leg is a one-trick band much the same way Art Brut was, except 1000% more mundane.

Come on, it's a pretty engaging trick, just not when deployed four times in four releases

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.