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

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.

Posted in his thread, but I dig this cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMAPW7ZoOLw

I will almost certainly have listened to this more than any other 2022 album (unless a dark horse emerges in the latter half of the year).

Now I imagine Miranda Lambert covering "Ur Mum" and Wet Leg covering "Actin' Up."

So far, Level 42 still the best band from the Isle of Wight but I'm prepared to be proved wrong.

― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.)

what about beggars farm

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

Still enjoying this album a lot. Catchy songs don't usually have much staying power for me, but there's something about these joyful tunes that keeps me coming back. It's certainly not the album of the year for me though.

So far, Level 42 still the best band from the Isle of Wight but I'm prepared to be proved wrong.

The (English) Beat were formed on the Isle of Wight, which was where Dave Wakeling and Andy Cox were fitting solar panels.

In 1978, Wakeling and his friend Andy Cox spent the autumn in the Isle Of Wight, building primitive solar panels for the latter’s eccentric American brother-in-law. The peaceful environment proved productive. At the southern tip of the Isle, in a house in Blackgang Chine which has since fallen into the sea, Wakeling and Cox would gather round the fire, dreaming and scheming. Friends from London would turn up, smoke some of Wakeling and Cox’s home-grown weed, tell their tales of the punk scene, then return to the big city, leaving the Brummies in their self-imposed exile. “It was absolutely beautiful,” Wakeling remembers. “You could see the ocean on the horizon, which I wasn’t used to in Birmingham.”

https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/beat

There are plenty of "post-breakup bitterness"–themed songs in the world, but a few lyrics of "Loving You" can hang with the best of them:

I used to want to love you like you wanted me to
Now I wanna hate you like I tell you I do

Don't call me up, you fucked it up
I'm not your friend, I'm not your pal

(These lines are obv basic/plainspoken, but that's how they cut right to the heart of that particular feeling/scenario...)

Only just clocked that Harry's drummer was in New Young Pony Club.

They've crossed over to the local alternative/modern rock station, apparently. (I hit seek obv.)

I see we've reached the ILX Swiftie stage of typing out crushingly banal lyrics and calling them profound

lol, you're 2 much

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— shirts that go hard (@shirtsthtgohard) July 15, 2022

now do a wet leg version!!!!

yeah idg what makes those lyrics anything special

They're pop lyrics that express a universal/relatable feeling in an artfully simple way (as good pop lyrics can do). If they don't do that for you, no harm done.

(it also helps to, you know, hear them in the context of the song)

Because I'm bored/procrastinating, I'll expand (even tho it feels like explaining why a joke is funny, or something):

Don't call me up, you fucked it up is the kind of lyric that seems obvious once you hear it, but there are a thousand clumsier / less artful ways it could have been expressed... two phrases, each four single-syllable words, stuck together by the final "up"; used figuratively (in a different way) each time. If you were writing a song in which you tell an ex not to call you anymore, and it's their fault you're on bad terms, would you have thought of Don't call me up, you fucked it up?

I'm not your friend, I'm not your pal mocks the ex's attempt at staying in touch; it's a pointedly condescendingly way of throwing the phone calls back in their face. "I'm not your pal" says, in three simple words (and with an implied sneer), "how dare you pretend everything's cool, and that I'd still want to talk / hang out with you, after what you've done?"

And the first lyric captures the double-edged ambiguity of how she wasn't as into the relationship as the other person; but now she's trying to cut off her emotions and just hate them (after their cheating / breakup / whatever), and finding that she can't fully do that.

(and, again, it does that in two simple lines, with perfect economy)

I dunno, I prefer that song they do about taking a lasagna and a raygun to a party. Much more relatable imo.

See? Something for everyone

(…even whoever “You're so woke, Diet Coke” is for)

when they sing 'McDonalds! McDonalds!', this signifies that they would also like to eat food from McDonalds in addition to Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut

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