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Wet Leg’s debut album flies straight in at No.1 on the UK Official Album Chart!
“They’ve ensured their debut album is well worth hearing – again and again and again” The Guardian 4* (Album of the Week)
“An absolute blast” The Telegraph 4* (Album of the Week)
“A thick slice of power pop” The i Paper 4* (Album of the Week)
“Wet Leg’s album positions them as one of those acts gifted enough to transcend their moment, existing instead in continuum with the classics.”
Stereogum (Album of the Week)
“Absurdist delights” The Observer (Artist of the Week)
“It rushes with liberating, infectious joy that makes you want to grab your own partner-in-crime and speed off on an adventure to find somewhere that’s, as Angelica’s mantra suggests, is ‘good times all the time’” NME 5*
“The right amount of silly and strange, off-beam and familiar” Mojo 4*
“’Wet Leg’ is a charming, addictive début—wry, melodic, gleeful, smart, and cool” The New Yorker
“This album is an unashamedly goofy celebration of fun, sex and romance, but also a bittersweet commentary on the price of pleasure, the cruel downside of love and the trials of being twentysomething women in 21st-century Britain” Uncut 8/10
“The Isle of Wight band’s debut recalls the Strokes’ Is This It: short tight songs and the impression they are having a total laugh” The Times 4*
“The Isle of Wight’s greatest export” The Sunday Times
“The Wet Leg album is a thrashing good time” New York Times
“A surreal, silly, super fun success” Evening Standard 4*
“This debut does prove that Teasdale and Chambers possess the instincts of canny entertainers, ones who already know how to hook you into their prickly, raunchy, witty way of looking at the world” NPR Fresh Air
“Wet Leg arrive fully formed and ready to have fun” Esquire
“There are enough sardonic one-liners on Wet Leg’s eponymous debut to fill a musical comedy act” Loud & Quiet 9/10
“One of the best albums of the year” GQ
“Effortless” DIY 5*
“Riotously smart debut” Record Collector 4*
“Wet Leg really are everything we said they were” Dork 5*
“Wet Leg’s self-titled LP is the most infectious, alluring, irresistible, and downright fun debut record that’s come our way in a long, long time.” Clash 9/10
“On Wet Leg, existential ennui never sounded so fun” The Independent 4*
The album is called Wet Leg and it is Number One!!!
Less than a year ago, the Isle of Wight’s Wet Leg released their debut single; the infectious, tongue-in-cheek “Chaise Longue” alongside a suitably irrepressible video. It set Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers off on an unexpected journey.
“It all seems so long ago now,” says Rhian, still a little stunned by the rapid pace of it all. “It’s a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road and, if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
That journey has taken in lobster claws, bubble baths and an elusive mop man alongside numerous TV performances and sell out tours all whilst racking up over 50 million streams and 9.5 million YouTube views.
The debut album 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 main focus was always “good-times-all-the-time” (“Angelica”) right from the start. Whilst the record is for the most part a representation of that sensibility, a dry and often dark sense of humour ripples through. Whether that’s eviscerating a pretentious ex-boyfriend who sends unwanted texts declaring he’s dreamt you were back together and happily married (“Wet Dream”) or being sucked into the 3am doom scroll on the magnificent glam-stomp “Oh No”, reminiscent of an ‘80s sci-fi film, distilled into two minutes and 29 seconds.
Wet Leg is sad music for party people, and party music for sad people. It is cathartic and joyful and punk and scuzzy and above all, it’s fun. “Wet Leg was originally just supposed to be funny” says Rhian. More and more people are now in on the joke with the two of them, but that spirit remains at the centre of what they do. “Home is now behind you. The world is ahead” concludes Hester.
The band’s completely sold-out spring 2022 UK tour starts tomorrow night.
Watch the videos for “Ur Mum” and “Too Late Now”
‘Wet Leg’ album tracklisting:
- Being In Love
- Chaise Longue
- Angelica
- I Don’t Wanna Go Out
- Wet Dream
- Convincing
- Loving You
- Ur Mum
- Oh No
- Piece of Shit
- Supermarket
- Too Late Now
Wet Leg is available to buy on vinyl, cassette, CD and digitally. A variety of merch (T-shirt, print) is available as a bundle too.
Buy: Wet Leg Store | Digital
Upcoming live dates (2022)
16th April Newcastle University SOLD OUT
17th April Edinburgh – The Mash House SOLD OUT
19th April Leeds Brudenell Social Club SOLD OUT
20th April Manchester Gorilla SOLD OUT
21st April Bristol Trinity Centre SOLD OUT
23rd April Birmingham 02 Institute SOLD OUT
24th April Norwich Arts Centre SOLD OUT
26th April London – Electric Ballroom (upgraded venue) SOLD OUT
27th April Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms SOLD OUT
14th May Paris Point Ephemere SOLD OUT
15th May Brussels – Le Nuits Botanique @ Botanique Rotonde
16th May Cologne Jaki
19th May Nijmegen Doornroosje
20th May Rotterdam Rotown SOLD OUT
21st May Amsterdam – London Calling @ Paradiso
23rd May Munich Milla
24th May Munich Milla SOLD OUT
25th May Berlin – Berghain/Kantine SOLD OUT
28th May Warrington Neighbourhood Weekender @ Victoria Park
16th June Newport – Isle of Wight Festival
23rd June Bristol Louisiana (Independent Venue Week) SOLD OUT
9th July Glasgow Green – TRNSMT
25th August Vancouver Rickshaw Theatre SOLD OUT
23rd October Munich Strom
25th October Milan Magazzini Generali
26th October Zurich Mascotte
29th October Hamburg Mojo Club
4th November Antwerp Trix
5th November Groningen Vera
6th November Berlin Astra Kulturehaus
7th November Cologne Kantine
9th November Paris Elysee Montmartre
10th November Esch-sur-alzette – Rockhal Club
11th November Amsterdam Paradiso Noord
13th November Norwich UEA SOLD OUT
14th November Bristol O2 Academy SOLD OUT
15th November Liverpool O2 Academy SOLD OUT
17th November Glasgow SWG3 SOLD OUT
18th November Leeds Beckett University Students Union SOLD OUT
19th November Manchester O2 Ritz SOLD OUT
21st November Birmingham O2 Institute
23rd November London O2 Forum Kentish Town SOLD OUT
24th November London O2 Forum Kentish Town (extra show) SOLD OUT
25th November Nottingham Rock City SOLD OUT
27th November Belfast Limelight
28th November Dublin Academy
Wet Leg have partnered with PLUS1 on their November 2022 UK & Irish tour so that £1 from every ticket goes to War Child to protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children caught up in war. www.warchild.org.uk
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