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

I wonder how much they paid for this industry endorsement, though... https://www.facebook.com/bathyspheral/posts/409085970578579

I looked at the credits on the single and a couple of people in this thread might recognise the drummer's name, a little board searching suggests.

Was he the drummer for Gay Dad?

xp (specifically NickB and emil.y, not to be too gnomic)

LOL, don't think it's the same guy though.

ha i just searched and that would be pretty amazing if it was true but i don't think it is. who knows though? that guy's a friend of ilxor chewshabadoo, they dj together a lot

Haha, not the same guy - but that’s funny and I’ve passed it on to him.

yeah he might want to edit his discogs page. otoh dj the drummer for wet leg does have a certain ring about it

I don't know anything about this band, but when they get home today I'll ask my teens if they've heard or heard of them, and if the answer is yes, then indeed the group's marketing machine is next level. And if the answer is no, and the band hasn't reached them yet, then the band's rise, or "rise," may indeed just be more of a run of the mill word of mouth thing.

Only old people like us listen to indie rock anymore

that's not true at all

signed, has felt old and out of place at many shows

At least ask a college kid.

Lol, Noel. Not the same guy - it's not that unusual a name, tbf, he also shares it with a notorious American serial killer.

I admit to also being perplexed by the "industry plant", "pulling some strings" stuff. Getting signed and having management/publicists isn't the same thing as being a plant! There are no "how to be a DIY band (sponsored by Volkswagen)" shenanigans that I can see here, unless I'm missing something.

Yeah ime it's always teenagers and only teenagers who want to learn stuff like Bon Iver and Mac deMarco.

he also shares it with a notorious American serial killer.

was reading about the building (aka 'the murder castle') in which this guy operated, it's fucking batshit

The first floor was the storefront. The second story consisted of his elaborate torture rooms, which contained a chute that led to the basement. The third floor held more apartment rooms.[23] There were soundproofed rooms and mazes of hallways, some of which seemed to go nowhere. Many of the rooms were outfitted with chutes that would drop straight down to the basement where Holmes had acid vats, quicklime and a crematorium to dispose of his victims' bodies.[24] Furniture suppliers found Holmes was hiding their materials, for which he had never paid, in hidden rooms and passages throughout the building.[24] Their search made the news,[25] and investors for the planned hotel pulled out of the deal when a jeweler in the building showed them the articles.

In 1894, some police officers inspected the hotel while Holmes was out. During the inspection, they found rooms with hinged walls and false partitions, rooms linked with secret passageways, and even airtight rooms that were connected to pipelines filled with gas, which Holmes used as gas chambers.[26] Holmes would use chutes to deliver the bodies to the basement, and once there, he made use of surgical tables and an array of medical tools to dissect them before selling their organs and bones on the black market and to medical institutions.[23] The hotel was gutted by a fire started by an unknown arsonist shortly after Holmes was arrested but was largely rebuilt and used as a post office until 1938

(start at 35:50)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rQuNHRqA4

I think I'm on Team Wet Dream over Team Chaise Longue now.

This feels like prime Lamacq-core, which sounds like archetypal damning with faint phrase but isn't meant to be. I like it - Chaise Longue over Wet Dream.

Is the UK crawling with bands like Sports Team (which imago mentioned)? Dumb name aside, their album has great songwriting, strong playing, good lyrics... what are some current RIYLs?

This just in: older teen daughter has never heard of Wet Leg.

who cares.....

Chill. It was only my totally unscientific test to see if the band's marketing push was so significant that it had reached her.

I really like the Sports Team album. Seems a step above the usual Lamacq fodder and has a certain charm about it (and also some good songs) xps

remember wet leg?

this feels like it was four years ago

i am steeling myself for this year's UK indie discourse being basically a two-way fight between this lot and Black Country New Road

I caught a snippet of "Chaise Longue" on NPR this weekend and, uh, I don't get the hype at all. It's fine, not terrible, but this is what all the hype is over?

Then again I like Black Country, New Road so, grain of salt and all I guess.

i like a lot of auld shite

Gonna take my wet leg down the black country new road
Gonna Chaaaaaaise till my Longue no more

Heard the 'chaise longue' song on FM radio in South Florida last week. The DJ spent about a minute leading into it talking about how "all his coolest friends from New York listen to this band."

industry plants are good

Will this be the second or third round on the ol' "industry plant" argument for Wet Leg?

I don't think I've seen as much "industry plant" theorising on this board since the Arctic Monkeys happened without ILM's permission in 2005.

can i just say that wet leg sounds like a fielding position in cricket or is that a silly point

When I first saw the name I kind of hoped it was a Pissed Jeans offshoot.

should have known there was a Wet Leg thread already on here. i see the backlash has already begun without their debut even being out yet.

the backlash is partly because they received all this hype without an album tbf

they may not necessarily have started as an industry plant but the industry has seized upon them with almost nostalgic zeal, it's like the 00s again

fair, but this just sounds like old people yelling to get off their lawn

it is also clear they had no other songs and have had to stall for time in order to cobble something semi-credible together, it'll still be a shambles ofc

nah this isn't old people yelling about the bright young things on the lawn, this is about people who are sick of the music press once again pretending hackneyed style-over-substance dross has supreme musical worth

but hey, they're such a vibe

they just had a catchy single and it got a lot of attention! that's not a crime

over and over in this thread i find it very bizarre that this band is being held up as suspect for just...being in the music business

i don't even love them but i fail to see what's so bad about it

they said the album was recorded mostly in april so idk i can believe that it would have been out like, november, without the pandemic causing all sorts of logistical issues for labels & manufacturing etc

they're not terrible just the hype has been totally disproportionate to what's there so far & it's a little exhausting

the badness is in direct proportion to (the number of Guardian, NME etc articles about them that my newsfeed shoves at me) x (how mundane I have found those songs) / (the number of songs they have put out)

Chaise Longue reminds me of "Lawnchairs". Chaise Lawn.

people itt seem to be coming from a few different places re:how ubiquitous & inescapable this band is, whether they're getting buzz or getting shoved down our throat by a pitiless marketing juggernaut

it's buzz, all my Gen X friends who like e.g. Vampire Weekend are all over this band

I like 'em just fine, got a vague Le Tigre vibe going on