Wet Leg
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Wet Leg
Wet Leg is the eponymous debut studio album by British rock band Wet Leg, released on 8 April 2022 by Domino. It was promoted by the viral hit"Chaise Longue", followed by the singles "Wet Dream", "Too Late Now", "Oh No", "Angelica", and "Ur Mum". The album received acclaim from music critics. -Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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Rolling Stone
Wet Leg’s Self-Titled Debut is the Sneeringly Sarcastic, Relentlessly Catchy Post-Punk Record the World Has Been Fiending For.
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The Guardian
With millennial angst and humour to spare, the duo’s quarter-life crisis album has a much broader remit than their repetitive breakout single.
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Pitchfork
The British indie rock duo have hooks stuffed with bait and a keen eye for assessing self-delusion. Their debut is the sound of two women stoking mutiny from a slow descent into madness.
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NME
An instant classic debut that justifies the hype.
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Treblezine
At its core, Wet Leg is an indie-dance album. But it still boasts a great deal of variety within that space—it tends to sway between a kind of fuzzy punk and a folksy pop sound, with a few glitchy electronic touches thrown in here and there for good measure. It keeps everything bouncing along nicely, whilst still maintaining a sound for the band that is instantly recognizable as their own—quite the achievement for a debut release.
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Paste Magazine
Duo’s first album is bawdy, smart and highly entertaining.
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The Line of Best Fit
Wet Leg was birthed out of a relatively innocent desire to “get free entry into festivals” so perhaps there’s something to be said for a band who doesn’t take themselves too seriously. In doing so the duo have gifted themselves the freedom to create joyfully, messily, and without pretension.
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The Fire Note
Every single you have heard from this album fits perfectly in the sequencing as they are nicely spread out across the record. The new songs you will now ingest on your first spin incorporate many of the pieces that made the singles so catchy but also have a bit of psychedelic surf sway to them. The tracks have the ability to be your new earworm but also form the bridge between the singles you are already addicted to. This is how Wet Leg is so good. It is an album from a young and carefree band that is filled with timeless pieces of indie rock. Wet Leg’s smarts will impress you, their crassness will put you on edge and their musicianship will keep you coming back!
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No Ripcord
If Wet Leg must be the embodiment of a real life Manic Pixie Dream Girl, then they're debunking the myth of her (non)existence. She's not some unattainable ideal; she’s just a girl, “almost 28, still getting off [her] stupid face,” high at the supermarket, doomscrolling, self-medicating, and feeling awkward at parties… and definitely not written by some lonely screenwriter to satisfy his fantasies (“Cos you can never tell what it is I am thinking/You say that I’m mysterious cos I won’t let you get it in”). They don't have to be written in the third person to see this kind of success; they earned it themselves. We're just stunned how easy they make it seem.
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Clash Magazine
Refreshing and totally natural, it’s been curious to watch a nascent backlash form against Wet Leg. TikTok – a hub for cynicism and trolls – has dubbed them an ‘industry plant’, and this framework has begun to seep into the music press. Looking online, some question the duo’s standout styling, as if wearing half-decent clothes was such a character flaw. Yes, their rise has been sudden, but some groups really are that good. Put aside your cynicism, and dial into the fireworks: ‘Wet Leg’ is an exceptional debut album.
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DIY Magazine
Packed with righteous middle fingers and playful bon mots.
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Crack Magazine
The band have said they mainly just want to have fun, and even amid tales of heartbreak, they’ve certainly succeeded. Armed with crunchy guitars and melodiously deadpan vocals, Wet Leg speaks to a distinctly British tendency to make running jokes out of uncomfortable situations and to intensely long for something you can’t quite put your finger on.
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Daily Mail
These island girls can go Wight to the top! Wet Leg's self-titled debut is frank, fearless and funny - and it's certainly no one-hit wonder.
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The Times
ignore the terrible name, this is a great guitar band with great tunes.
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The Upcoming
This is definitely a case then where you should believe the hype – even though it’s almost a shame to say so. Because there’s also a humble, well-made charm to the record that means it can be thoroughly enjoyed even if you’re slightly too old or uncool to go to the places Wet Leg are undoubtedly going.
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The Skinny
On their long-awaited debut album, Wet Leg perfectly capture the difficult feeling of drifting through life in early adulthood/
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Indie Is Not A Genre
Wet Leg’s debut sees them address the confusion of being a young adult getting to know themselves through witty, catchy songs filled with one-liners that could easily see the band go down the comedy avenue instead. An absolute all-rounder, Wet Leg are destined to feed hungry listeners with this release – and will even leave them hungry for more.
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Under the Radar Magazine
Long before the album closes in some style with the soaring crescendo of “Too Late Now” it’s clear that Wet Leg have more than delivered on their early promise. It’s also apparent to anybody with an open mind and ears that they have the legs to carry on crafting melodically uplifting idiosyncratic earworms for as long as it remains fun. Long may they continue to irk the purists and cause the myopic “authenticity police” to shake their fists at clouds in a state of puce faced apoplexy whilst the rest of us simply enjoy the ride.
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Bernard Zuel
Normally, this kind of “maturing” of songwriting and sound might come with a second or third album, but Wet Leg have accelerated it, and there’s nothing wrong with that even if it blurs the differences between them and the competition. And even if the idea of slower/less brittle/more crafted songs as somehow more mature is debatable. It's a smart pop record.
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Stereoboard
Wet Leg are one of the most interesting amongst this latter crop, however their fundamental sound—low slung post-punk/indie—is not always one that lends bands to a long and varied catalogue. It will be interesting to see if Wet Leg can break that mould. You'd like to think they can, because this is an excellent start.
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musicOMH
This debut could have been a niche critical favourite. Instead, every preconception has been firmly smashed, and they are on track to become the biggest band in the country.
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mxdwn Music
Wet Leg’s self-titled debut album is a powerful crash onto the musical scene, worth every listen.
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Hotpress
Nihilism hasn’t sounded this much fun since Nirvana’s ‘About A Girl’.
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The 13th Floor
Yep, there’s plenty to like about Wet Leg…the la la las, the deadpan delivery, the pointed lyrics and the primal scream (during Ur Mum).
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Secret Meeting
Wet Leg’s debut record is a standalone masterpiece that transcends categorisation with a hard-to-pin-down quality that sets the duo apart. The bottom line? Wet Leg truly are ones to watch.
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Pop Goes the Weasel
That kinds of sums up Wet Leg’s assertive, self possessed attitude and also explains why they float effortlessly above the online criticism. They are going to do what they want to do, whether you are here for it or not. With the album at number one, having out-sold the rest of the top 5 combined, they’ve already done a pretty fine job.
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Beats Per Minute
In many ways, it’s Wet Leg’s small imperfections that make it the perfect debut – an impressive, tantalising exploration of their core talents that leaves just enough room for improvement.
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Pancakes and Whiskey
The songs on/by Wet Leg are all cool enough to feed your rock and roll fantasies, or groovy enough to slow dance to or make out to. This record is going to be the feel-good hit of the summer, that is destined to be played all over rooftops, backyard barbecues, and any other places that revelry will be taking place.
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The Indiependent
Wet Leg might be enjoying a meteoric rise in the music world but, through the well-produced pop-punk tracks of their debut effort, they bring themselves back down to earth. They might be prairie dress-wearing women changing the face of the genre but at the heart of the band (and their debut effort) is just two friends having fun, something you really get a sense of from Wet Leg.
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New Noise Magazine
And fuck these songs are funny (“Chaise Lounge is deadpan at its best); And danceable! And while admittedly these songs get better with each additional listen, they are pretty stellar the first time you hear them as well.
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Northern Transmissions
For now, Wet Leg are a decent-enough band with a decent-enough debut, but there’s not much particularly exciting about them. Hopefully, with their next album, there’ll be more to say about their music.
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Glide Magazine
This album does have its missteps, enough of such to stunt its growth to a noticeable degree. Nevertheless, in many senses, Wet Leg undoubtedly shows great promise in their choice of which sounds they choose to greet the music world.
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The Clarion Call
ndie rock is a genre of music that is becoming over saturated quickly, but Wet Leg stands out in the scope of alternative musicians with their debut album, “Wet Leg.” The duo effortlessly balances the fine line between music that is uncomfortably cheesy, and alternative pop that is authentic and enjoyable. After taking in this album, I’m eager to see what is next for ladies of Wet Leg.
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Loud and Quiet
This combination makes them reassuringly familiar, and yet their ability to write nagging hooks renders them genuinely exciting. These are tracks that make you want to dance, especially the disco handclaps on the infectious ‘Wet Dream’, while offering deadpan observations about modern life. “I don’t need no dating app to tell me if I look like crap,” snaps Teasdale on ‘Too Late Now’. The duo don’t ignore the messiness or confusion of being a young adult but on their debut they distil the emotions into two-minute songs that are communal acts of joy.
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Vinyl Chapters
Wet Leg is as fresh as a dewy spring morning and as lively as a box of jumping frogs. The song construction and arrangement are on point, it’s punchy, catchy and energising. The duo have captured the essence of ‘fun song writers’; a little familiar at times but staying true to the stories they are conveying. The LP is a tale of the pressures of modern life told through the eyes of the two members, while their tongues are placed firmly in their cheeks. This is RiotGrrrl for the 21st century and a representation of the Loud Women movement. Not since the debut of the Arctic Monkeys has indie rock sounded so raw and honest.
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Spectrum Culture
Wet Leg is irresistible post-punk revival for the internet age that helped propel the band to instant fame.
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The Arts Desk
But now it’s here, Wet Leg feels somewhat lacking. Indeed, this exciting new noise doesn’t sound particularly new nor especially exciting. Instead, it’s rather insubstantial and it will be interesting to see how much play these tunes are still getting in a couple of months when the media hysteria has calmed down.
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Uncut
Isle Of Wight duo add emotional depth to punk-pop mischief on confident debut.
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Record Collector Magazine
Like Yard Act’s The Overload, Wet Leg’s debut album is simultaneously of its time, ahead of its time, and evokes past times. Their summation that it is sad music for party people, and party music for sad people, is apposite. What it is, undoubtedly, is enormously engaging.
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