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

Only one song so far but what a calling card...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9jeJk2UHQ

pretty pretty pretty good.

Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening To Neu

very standard UK indie with slightly elevated presentation?

Not in my opinion. On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure why I like it so much. It feels assured and confident. I also find it very funny.

Learned a new word today!

Weird, but I think I need to hear more songs by them to contextualize it? On its own, I'm not too moved, but if I had a more rounded idea of what their vision is, I might be able to frame it differently. Does that make sense? Dunno.

Watched the video, enjoyed it, didn't think I needed to hear it more than once - but 6 Music keep playing it, and it turns out to bear up remarkably well to repeated listens. If I still compiled a personal chart, it would be number one.

Enjoyed the track - getting Dry Cleaning crossed with Petite Meller vibes.

I will regret that post within days

Makes me feel like Art Brut is back and coming from me that's a compliment

The YT is a neat side eye at #cottagecore, I guess.

Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?

On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure why I like it so much. It feels assured and confident. I also find it very funny.

Yes, I also really love it, and I think its sense of humour and playfulness is a huge part of it. There is so little new music that feels fun, or funny.

Perhaps the finest song about lying on french furniture since Plastic Bertrand.

wow, what is this contemporary drivel

are we already post-dry cleaning?

Not sure I'd use the word drivel but yeah idgi either

I kinda dig the song, but ever since I first heard it I haven’t been able to pinpoint the song it reminds of...until now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdSQlCbJ90

omg yes

this is better than Dry Cleaning, imo

i'll give Dry Cleaning another chance tonight tho

I like the guitar more w/ Dry Cleaning but this is nice.

extraordinarily terrible band name

Weird, but I think I need to hear more songs by them to contextualize it? On its own, I'm not too moved, but if I had a more rounded idea of what their vision is, I might be able to frame it differently. Does that make sense? Dunno.

I kinda dig the song, but ever since I first heard it I haven’t been able to pinpoint the song it reminds of...until now:

extraordinarily terrible band name

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, July 19, 2021 9:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I will never get how groups of ostensibly creative people come up with the most banal and forgettable band names

unless this is a regional idiom or perhaps a pun I am not getting

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

The video is necessary to get the whole sleepy eyed sarcasm across, but the attitude here is an ace distillation of a despairing humor of trying to get your life started in this broken summer. Maybe a totally one-off, but a potent one, like Vivian Goldman’s Launderette or Wet Dog’s Lower Leg, who may have inspired the band name. Stuck in my head for days.

Dry Cleaning isn’t working for me. Did get me to relisten to Algebra Suicide though.

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue (Live at O2 Academy, Oxford - 24/08/21)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfHx1bpSck

geez i guess covid is over?

UK and US attitudes to Covid are very very different at this point, but Wet Leg do not appear to have a second song yet

I think both Wet Leggers are/have been associates of Plastic Mermaids who seem vaguely relevant to comrade imago's interests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3rIWOa55yc

Prefer my polyrhythmic synth textures when they're not underpinning some Coldplay bollocks ngl

Marveling at how short the blonde woman in the band is.

80% of adults in the UK double vaxxed, and people less beefy about showing vaccine status or rapid test to go to shows i guess... still know a lot of people hesitant to go to any though.

I liked the song the first couple times but do find it weird how they seem to be blowing up compared to all the other recent post-punk groups when they have one released song.

less chance to have bad songs if you only release one song

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/138/highresrollsafe.jpg

geez i guess covid is over?

Particularly in England, the vast majority do seem to think it is all over. Of course, everyone is going to catch Covid at some point so maybe going out to gigs / clubs is maybe just hastening the inevitable?

so wait they are playing shows despite only having one song? What do they do for the rest of the time onstage?

all night long all night long on the....

so this is out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpgJjdk52c

not loving it because it does kind of sound like a franz ferdinand song, but it's fun and thats okay

very standard UK indie with slightly elevated presentation?

― imago, Sunday, June 27, 2021 7:53 PM bookmarkflaglink

Hey, imago was right!

Should I be 'SPENDING TIME' with this band

Also, did a gen x'er write this? Buffalo 66 is a "you had to be there" 90s deep cut.

The Undertones would like their lobster bibs back.

https://images.eil.com/large_image/THE_UNDERTONES_HYPNOTISED%2B%2B%2BLOBSTER%2B-%2BEX-742797.jpg

Literally everything has to be a 90s reference now

Also, did a gen x'er write this? Buffalo 66 is a "you had to be there" 90s deep cut.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)

I found the lyrics to 'Chaise Longue' pretty cringe and that stopped me liking it but the line about B66 perfectly captures the sort of That Fucking Guy this song is about, I really like it.

Like, it is Cinema Guy who talks non-stop about '70s cinema, especially the "edgy shit", except updated. The '90s were 30 years ago, it's so totally the same thing for their generation.

Makes sense

I find this mildly more palatable but also less interesting than Chaise Longue

I think I've worked out the reason Chaise Longue annoys me is because the opening lines are almost identical to 'Pulled Up' by Talking Heads

I still prefer Fists

That Davina song reminds me of the Kings of Leon for some reason...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWaFVvVoj4o

oof, i'm not clicking on that pal :)

It's back when they were "quite good"

Never happened.

They were never good.

The only musical King of Leon I recognize is Alfonso El Sabio

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

not available in your country... (uk)

whole set is here though...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002f2t8/glastonbury-english-teacher-and-wet-leg

(thought it odd they didn't finish with Chaise Longue)

They only shared Ur Mum and CPR. I posted Ur Mum because she is screaming her head off like a banshee.

Heard one of the new ones, something about a Fist? Not shaking the Elastica, but sounded even more like the Killers or something like that.

Really like Davina Mccall. Very different live but just as good. Glad they seem to have survived the fame rocket intact.

I like the live stuff better myself.

'The kids of the 2020s should protect themselves from the 90s.'

Sounds good on a Friday in mid-July:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzaBBVha9Ks

Good album imo

I like it. More of a full band effort, and it has that grimy, road weary vibe to it that, in rare cases like this, enhances a transitional second album.

Yep, it's good! More of a solid chunka chunka rock album than the debut imo, which is fine by me. I like chunka chunka rock.

Yeah I too really enjoyed my first listen. Seems a little less gimmicky than the debut.

At what point did the guys demand being included in everything

New songs very solid, I like them all. Very, very tight and rehearsed. The bridge/change/flip/outro to Davina is gorgeous.

liked this album way more than i thought i would. "mangetout" is so good

Is the “protect themselves against the 90’s” thing a Mike Watt reference? Isn’t there a Ball Hog or Tugboat thing about the 70’s?

Isn’t there a Ball Hog or Tugboat thing about the 70’s?

Yes, with Eddie Vedder: The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s

https://www.newbandsforoldheads.com/p/wet-leg-industry-plant?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Discussion of why some guys who post comments on mainstream sites hate Wet Leg in a sexist manner

absolute drivel lmao

harry potter esque sorting hat/political compass diagram the sort of reductive bilge that passes for music discussion

wet leg hate comes from the glib delivery, the lack of interesting music, the sense that this band whose early festival appearances were completely underwhelming even by early festival appearance standards suddenly got forced on everyone due to the merest hint of cheery marketability and the music press ate what they were given unquestioningly. this has nothing to do with whether they are 'hot women' and everything to do with the fact they have been expressly marketed that way, and not just to women either (see their large Gen X male fanclub) in order to sell some really pretty dreary stuff

sorry for arguing on ILM, I know it's not seen as cricket these days

like honestly, she's asking where The Strokes' industry plant accusations are...like, that is literally the only Strokes discourse that survives ffs

There’s nothing a frothing, new music hating public loves more than to hate on pretty young girls playing rock music. And there’s no better fodder for that hate than Wet Leg.

Well they're not "young girls" for a start, they're in their 30s.

Are they? I thought they were in their mid 20s

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Yes, there's videos on Youtube of Rhian Teasdale from 10 years ago when she was a sort of Kate Bush like singer songwriter.

wet leg hate comes from the glib delivery, the lack of interesting music

The delivery is what makes them stand out from most rock bands , in a good way.

i love wet leg and i think they are hilarious and delightful. but their whole schtick is this hipster deadpan, this andy warhol or 1965 dylan affect, that many people have always hated and interpreted as snobbery. so the hate for them is easy to understand.

There's definitely a hilarious echo of 70s paying-your-dues rockism to their criticism, like "Who are they and where did they come from and what have they done to earn all this attention".

People said the same about Roxy Music in 1972.

The songs are amazing, the performances and live skills without doubt. The presentation/fashion/demeanor seems perfect in response to the ridiculous spotlight they were set into (Harry Styles??). Huge fan here. Anyone who can't laugh and sing along with these songs isn't listening.

There's definitely a hilarious echo of 70s paying-your-dues rockism to their criticism, like "Who are they and where did they come from and what have they done to _earn_ all this attention".

Yeah but even if one judges musicians that way Wet Leg haven’t tried to hide their journeywoman background.

There's a bunch of artists going way back, that changed one thing then suddenly became big hitters on their "first" single (or so).

The Who, The Waterboys, Kaiser Chiefs, and yep, Wet Leg.

There's definitely a hilarious echo of 70s paying-your-dues rockism to their criticism, like "Who are they and where did they come from and what have they done to earn all this attention".

I'm currently reading a biography of the Cars (to be published in September) and the early chapters about the members' various go-nowhere early bands are grimly hilarious.

I remember that The Knack had a similar "who are these arrivistes" reception when they were a thing. But paradoxically one of the major criticisms levelled at e.g. David Bowie, Slade, Elton John - and then later on with Adam Ant, Billy Idol, Judas Priest etc - is that they had "paid their dues" during the pre-fame part of their career, without success, and that by changing their sound they were just shallow trend-chasers.

So I suppose you can't win.

mangetout lives in my head now. you bottom feeder. here in chicago (outside even!) in three weeks.

Sorry to the haters, but moisturizer is fantastic, and better than the debut. I didn't want to like it this much, but here we are.

I prefer it to the debut too.

Whenever I hear a random song and ask myself, who is this? I'm pleasantly surprised that it's a track off this new record. I need to deep dive it at some point.

Good live radio session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEZdq_25bs

Cool, fun guitar gear talk with Hester and Josh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN3bEjO-mok

"Davina McCall" my fave of the moment. Album is better than the first one

i've sat and listened to Davina on repeat for a few plays a couple of times. Really killer version on that KEXP Eazy posted

We got lucky and saw them play a mini-show at the Grammy Museum last night. They sound massive now - free floating feedback that wouldn't be out of place with the Golden Age of Flying Nun noiseniks. I think in the long term Davina will be their defining song - like it's the "Maps" of this time.