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

Cow Art All Inn Onn Wet Leg

xps - they’re on Domino, unless 4AD are releasing the album in some territories?

really need a band called fresh pants to complete the wet leg / dry cleaning laundry cycle

With Pissed Jeans as opening act.

New Pants plays on the following day.

Am I the only one hearing an Electrelane influence in this one?

xps - I did think after posting you were maybe thinking of Dry Cleaning.

Not trying to be overly-critical of jed_, but looking at the thread title, how cool are we with calling them a "girl band"?

On a related tangent, their more recent videos have the three dudes in them, which to me would indicate that they are more substantial than just ringers to fill out the live band. But then I haven't encountered any mention of them in press/interviews.

Also, discogs is like 5 For Sale from $63.60 re the 7"

I find that each of their four songs reminds me of specific other songs from a very interesting range of bands, both as far as sound as well as themes.

list plz

the four tunes of wet leg

Didn't see it explicitly covered upthread, but just saw Domino has the self-titled debut up for pre-order, due out April 8, 2022.

1 Being In Love
2 Chaise Longue
3 Angelica
4 I Don't Wanna Go Out
5 Wet Dream
6 Convincing
7 Loving You
8 Ur Mum
9 Oh No
10 Piece Of Shit
11 Supermarket
12 Too Late Now

fwiw, regarding the lineup, the brief write-up at Domino only refers to them as a duo and only names those two:

After releasing two of the hottest singles of the year, Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers were catapulted from their confines on the Isle of Wight to sold out venues across the UK and packed-out tents at festivals causing giddy excitement wherever they went. Now, the duo is thrilled to unveil news of their debut album. The album is called Wet Leg.

Bold. This is indie promotion when nothing is selling. It reminds me of Elastica. Relying on a great first single to sell an album. And sex. Sex sells and it's in every song.

I'm watching the Tiny Desk Concert; she introduces the three guys separately, as "our band" (she does say their names, fwiw).

Their guitar sound is OK, but I find their jaded, low-energy presentation to be displeasing.

what bugs me about their general vibe is by going for both 'detached cool' and 'whimsical nonsense' they've ended up with just the weaknesses of both

Prinzhorn Dance School update

This is indie promotion when nothing is selling. It reminds me of Elastica. Relying on a great first single to sell an album.

isnt that how singles work?

From excitement to backlash before the album is out, the 90s are back!

lmao

Much of the backlash is tbf about the ludicrous amounts of unwarranted hype they're getting

itt wet leg meets wet blankets

We Emulate Terribly Let's Eat Grandma

?? I don't hear Let's Eat Grandma in this at all

not sonically, more the schoolfriend-duo-come-to-save-British-pop thing, also mostly i'm trying to make the acronym work

tread lightly before someone starts acronyming "imago"

Are they really school friends? One looked a lot older than the other in that tiny desk, but she was kind of standing in the shadows

i trust you to be kind, Definitely Joking Person

Are they really school friends? One looked a lot older than the other in that tiny desk, but she was kind of standing in the shadows

Cool to see ILX geezers discussing their ages and 'presentation'

'slightly elevated presentation' was about their costume/production values/budget/filming style, not anything else - something which is absolutely part of the reason that debut single got noticed

are we really all old and bitter enough to justifiably get angry about novelty bands getting too big too fast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMR_L8S30aA

The only place I've encountered this band remains this thread. Maybe because I wouldn't listen to 6 Music if they paid me to.

Then again, amongst my IRL friends, “Chaise Longue” is the 2021 track I’ve heard mentioned more than any other.

it's not a bad song but it's something of a throwaway. allows drunk people to scream the lyrics at each other before they throw themselves around the bar i guess. Rock and roll!

I'm still not cynical enough to actually look into the reason for their meteoric rise but surely someone somewhere has pulled a few strings. I mean it can't just be "it's a really cool song" because there are millions of really cool songs

The best part of not living in the UK is being mostly unaware of and completely immune to whatever the UK music press is saying or hyping.

Maybe they're getting as much of a press push in the US but I wouldn't even know where to look for that kind of hype machine. I only heard "Chaise Longue" because of a generated playlist based on Lithics and Dry Cleaning.

they're getting a big push in nyc. they were supposed to play a show at Music Hall of Williamsburg (650 capacity) and got pushed to Brooklyn Steel (1800 capacity) and a $30 ticket. Not bad for your debut performance.

I've stumbled on way more Dry Cleaning hype than Wet Leg hype, fwiw. (And not that much of either. But also I'm not in the UK, sounds like it's different there.)

Anyway "Chaise Longue" is great, the other tunes are good, not sure what there is to hate here.

screw the haters, chaise longue and wet dream are bloody excellent tracks

Really like "Too Late Now" - hearing a bit of Karen O/YYYs in it.

lol @ 'the UK music press'

i think said the gramophone had the best take on them in his year end list:

Powered by cute girls, a cool video, and this excellent, double-entendre-crammed single, I can't decide if Wet Leg are the next Yeah Yeah Yeahs or the next Right Said Fred.

six of one afaic

Right Said Yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBiWrp9kkWE

i'm sorry but this is great. they're hysterical! idk about the rest of the music but this is self evidently a great single, a point that is of course confirmed by the song's very divisiveness

Debut album out April 8th? What's the delay?

ride the hype train as long as you can before you disappoint the world

Also "girl band", aren't they a bit mature for that?