Wet Leg

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Domino is committed to protecting the personal information you entrust to us. We adopt robust and appropriate technologies and policies to protect the information you have provided to us from unauthorised access and improper use. a b c d Sheffield, Rob (7 April 2022). "Wet Leg's Self-Titled Debut is the Sneeringly Sarcastic, Relentlessly Catchy Post-Punk Record the World Has Been Fiending For". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 12 April 2022. a b Ruiz, Matthew Ismael (29 November 2021). "Wet Leg Announce Debut Album, Share New Video: Watch". Pitchfork . Retrieved 25 February 2022. Martoccio, Angie (1 February 2022). "Wet Leg Show Off 'the Good, the Bad, the Ugly' Social Media Comments in New Video". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 25 February 2022. Powers: We represent three different generations and it's interesting: We all hear a bit of our youth in this band, the kind of moment in youth where you're still wild and experimenting, but you're also realizing that maybe this isn't so good for your brain. I remember once when I was a kid in San Francisco, being on the train with my friend after a night of debauchery and my friend turning to me and saying, "Did you know when you drink too much the next day, your brain shrinks?" And feeling my brain shrinking in my head at that moment! Wet Leg is the sound of your brain shrinking, but it's also the sound of what happens to make your brain shrink.

Helfand, Rachel (29 November 2021). "Wet Leg announce debut album, share two new singles" . Retrieved 25 February 2022. Tenreyro, Tatiana (8 April 2022). "Wet Leg lives up to the hype on its debut LP". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 14 April 2022. to comply with local laws including when we believe in good faith the law requires such use and/or disclosure; a b Wolf, Erika (7 April 2022). "Wet Leg Craft a Flirty, Irreverent & Ennui-infused Feminist Ode to Best Friendship with Self-Titled Debut Album Review". Albumism . Retrieved 14 April 2022. Wet Leg jab with humor to disrupt these expectations. The glee that greeted the Mean Girls references and basic innuendo in “Chaise Longue” seemed a bit overdone—proof of a listenership desperate for levity (and presumably having overlooked the absurdism in Dry Cleaning’s debut)—but there are genuinely funny moments elsewhere on the album. It works best to amplify the various states of existential horror they find themselves in, though they occasionally land a devastating insult. The moody surf of “Piece of Shit” fields a call from a raging ex, and at first Teasdale stonewalls their accusations, using passivity to rile them even further: “I’m such a slut?/Alright/Whatever helps you sleep at night.” Then she turns on them, joined by Chambers in a strange, mousy little harmony that adds insult to injury: “Yeah, like a piece of shit you either sink or float/So you take her for a ride on your daddy’s boat.”

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That song in particular really made me think of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her [show] Fleabag, and Waller-Bridge is someone who's really mastered the ability to go to that dark moment and deliver true pathos. But maybe not giving us that moment is the true challenge. Staying in that more disaffected state doesn't deliver a catharsis that's more conventional, and maybe that's what's interesting about this band. Wet Leg was recorded and produced in the main by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey (“Chaise Longue” and “Angelica” were produced by Jon McMullen and Josh Mobaraki respectively). The album was mostly recorded in London, in April 2021, meaning they had a finished album before the world had even heard debut single “Chaise Longue” or played live. We may also use or disclose the personal information we have collected in relation to the following: a b c Paskin, Aaron (8 April 2022). "Wet Leg: Wet Leg". Spectrum Culture . Retrieved 14 April 2022.

Ganz: I hear friendship in the presentation. When you hear Chambers' voice, it's often in direct response to something Teasdale is saying. Chambers also plays the lead guitar on the record and so much of the melody and the fun and the attraction of the music is dependent on those guitar lines. Teasdale's vocals are so flat and monotone, but the songs get energy from the guitar. On many of the other songs, any melody that exists in the vocals is actually cribbed directly from the guitar line. So it does feel like there is a musical element where Chambers is that same kind of support, building a wall or building protection. Powers: That was a smart move. It's perhaps calculated, perhaps not, in a pop landscape where so much is exposed, not just emotionally, as we talked about before, but in terms of bodies, right? When we tune in to an awards show, we see lots of flesh, male and female and non-binary at this point. And there is an explicitness in the mainstream — I never want to say it's more than ever because I think everything in pop is cyclical. It's sort of a mid-70s moment when there's a lot of nudity and sexuality on stage. Here's this band that is like, no, I'm not going to do that. And then there's an interesting element of self-protection embedded in the relationship between the two women at the center. That's not so much something you hear in the music because you don't really hear Chambers' voice that much. But in the video, she's really central as a foil for Teasdale, as the best friend who's hugging her and holding her up. a b c d e f Danton, Eric R. (4 April 2022). "Wet Leg Are Sharp and Funny on Self-Titled Debut LP". Paste . Retrieved 7 April 2022. a b c "Wet Leg's sassy debut single 'Chaise Longue' is your post-punk summer anthem". 16 June 2021 . Retrieved 16 October 2021.

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Wet Leg on their first ever gig | The Evening Show with George Godfrey | Radio X How did Wet Leg meet? British single certifications – Wet Leg – Chaise Longue". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 19 March 2023. Wet Leg— the Isle of Wight duo made up of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers — have finally announced their self-titled debut, out April 8, 2022. In a more mixed review Kitty Empire, selecting it as her Observer Album of the Week, nevertheless expressed disappointment at the album's mundanity, stating "Wet Leg’s unself-conscious art seemed initially to foreground the ridiculousness of everything (especially weird stains). Their album, by contrast, drills down hard into how rubbish exes are. Relatable, of course, understandable too, but perhaps not what was originally indicated by those lobster claws." [40]

Aswad, Jem (28 September 2021). "Oddball British Duo Wet Leg Return With Their Second Great Single This Year, 'Wet Dream' ". Variety . Retrieved 16 October 2021. Wet Leg are the first band from the Isle of Wight to achieve a UK number 1 album. [41] Year-end lists [ edit ] Publication Triple A Radio Future Releases". Archived from the original on 8 February 2022 . Retrieved 25 February 2022. Moore, John (8 April 2022). "Album Review: Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino Record Co.)". New Noise . Retrieved 14 April 2022. a b Fox, Cassie (3 April 2022). "Wet Leg: Wet Leg: album review – Album of the Week!". Louder Than War . Retrieved 3 April 2022.

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a b c Empire, Kitty (2 April 2022). "Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – absurdist delights and damp squibs". The Observer . Retrieved 7 April 2022. Cills: I think there is a relationship. I was thinking about the way Wet Leg sings about boys, especially in a song like "Wet Dream," and how they often make fun of men. It's very emasculating. And I was thinking about "WAP," which is one of the last great pop songs about sex, but men are almost just a tool to be used in that song. I thought it was funny, when I read Rob Tannenbaum's profile of the band for The New York Times, that "WAP" was the only song Wet Leg referenced as being an influence. Their music may not sound like rap, but if we think about who dominates that genre right now it's Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, it's more alternative artists like cupcakKe, women who are doing something demanding and funny and grotesque with how they talk about sex and desire, simultaneously flirting with but also making fun of men. It's music for boys who want to be stepped on. Smith, Carl (12 January 2023). "BRIT Awards 2023 nominations REVEALED". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 12 January 2023. a b c Von Pip, Andy (30 August 2021). "Wet Leg on Their Debut Single "Chaise Longue" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 16 October 2021.

Cills: This is why the term industry plant keeps getting thrown around by younger audiences because the music industry has changed so rapidly that younger audiences are used to an artist going viral and then they get signed and then they record material. The idea of someone having demos and shopping those to a label or before their career takes off is just foreign. It creates a kind of skepticism when a young person sees an artist and they're not already inundated with their body of work. Offiziellecharts.de – Wet Leg – Wet Leg" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 15 April 2022.Redfern, Mark (28 September 2021). "Wet Leg Share Surreal Video for New Song "Wet Dream" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 25 February 2022. Holden, Steve. "Wet Leg: Mean Girls and buttered muffins". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 8 January 2022. Powers: We should talk about the band's visuals, starting with the video for "Chaise Longue," which really was as much part of their breakthrough as the sound of the song. Hazel, what was your take when you first saw it? Martoccio, Angie (28 February 2022). "Wet Leg's 'Angelica' May Sound Upbeat, But It's 'Laced With Disenchantment' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 5 April 2022. Lee, Taila (15 November 2022). "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". Grammys.com . Retrieved 15 November 2022.