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

listening now and i can safely say they picked the right singles

"supermarket" and "i don't wanna go out" are fun too

"Oh No" is still bad but I like the rest of it

Man that p4k review is beautifully written, I kind’ve didn’t want it to end.

It is a good review – reminded me of that Bongwater song about the Rolling Stone review ("I'm still not sure it was a pan, the writing was so convoluted and semiotic, it was more like something you'd read in Artform or October magazine")... but in a good way.

Sounds entirely nothing like Elastica.

Giving it a spin and enjoying it

Haha

― And liberty she pirouette (Sund4r), Thursday, April 7, 2022 4:46 AM (two days ago)

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Solid album. I don't hear Elastica.

Wish it wasn't so rhythmically boring. It's plodding without going full motorik. The vocals are thin and the hooks dry up fast.

I probably would've liked this in 2001, to be honest.

was at a record fair earlier today and two not-so-young stallholders were talking about a band called Hot Leg that one of them had just heard

Rod Stewart tribute band iirc

I like the album. The singles are standouts for sure, but overall a lot of good hooks and lines. You can play spot the influence all day — e.g., "I Don't Wanna Go Out" nicks that hammer-on guitar note from "The Man Who Sold the World" and the melody somehow reminds me of "Paisley Park." But even if they don't always make their influences their own, they at least do them justice. Nothing earth-shaking, but entirely likable.

Weren’t Hot Legs the dancers on Top of the Pops or summat?

Legs & Co.

They knew how to use them.

Leggs Inc.

I don't hear Elastica.

One day we'll hang out in person, and I'll play you an Airbourne song just so you can tell me with a straight face that you don't hear AC/DC.

I watched their two videos and that was enough. My favorite thing about them was the blond girl's dancing in the "Chaise Longue" video. I'm mostly left pondering which sounds it's critically acceptable to C&P and which it's not.

For one, I prefer Elastica.

feel like you could make a stronger Stereolab circa "French Disko" case than Elastica

I hear Descendants.

I hear a symphony

xp don't really hear that, it is much more restrained

I liked Milo Goes to College, listened it on repeat on KUSF and KALX at the time (the USF and Berkeley college radio stations). I remember that The Descendants felt really out there to me, as did Flipper, Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü, Black Flag, MDC, Bad Brains

Maybe Alfred meant the movie

Maybe he meant the old Other Music category La Decadence.

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

Nah, I meant the band: the snottiness, the insistence on "simplicity."

I some of the album cuts (e.g., "I Don't Wanna Go Out") a lot more than the singles. I also agree w/whomever said the drumming feels a touch too slow and tentative for this style.

Also agree they sound nothing like Elastica. BPM-era Unrest is a touchstone that comes to mind for me

if we're doing comparisons, i'd say the yfeel like a kindler gentler yeah yeah yeahs with a less good drummer

Weren’t Hot Legs the dancers on Top of the Pops or summat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOr5cyLvqOM

"Supermarket" (another one I like) sounds like some of those melodic Parquet cCourts songs (e.g., "N. Dakota"); and as a bonus, it shares a lyrical concern – being stoned in public.

"Piece of Shit" is a good song (wish it had a different title)

I like this band now, lol

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ianu7PBhJck

I'm liking the non-"Chaise"/"Wet Dream" songs better in these live videos than on the record.

I think those two songs are more appealing, at least in this 2nd vid (haven't watched the first one yet). Good performance.

The first video is good, too – I like how it has some non-album songs.

This is a good album

straight in at number 1 on the UK album chart! that is impressive and unexpected. i figured it would go in in the mid teens and then drop out after a week so it will be interesting to see how it fares next week.

Described as "the much-hyped Isle of Wight indie duo" on the BBC website. So it must be true.

How do you get to number 1 in the uk, sales or streams or both? Does airplay on the digital channel “BBC Horny Dads” count?

Sales + streams.

Wet Leg going straight in at number one isn't enough to dislodge this important story as the lead item on the Isle of Wight County Press website:

https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/20074650.cadbury-easter-egg-bought-isle-wight-dead-slug-inside/

Cowes, Ventnor and Ningwood couldn't care less about yer mainland media hype.

“BBC Horny Dads”=Underrated Porn Genre

It was a message to the Isle from the sad dads -- Wet Leg ripped off Dead Slug.

“BBC Horny Dads”=Underrated Porn Genre

oh, I suspect that's a rather popular genre

Liking “UR Mom” a lot

"Ur Mom" is good, but the chord change in the last line of the chorus ("'Cause you just don't motivate me") slightly irks me, for some reason

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

This is a good album

It really is. Killer hooks.