Wet Leg do an excellent job of creating a wild kitschy-ness out of the ordinary, putting a party chorus to a song about grocery shopping and making all of our lives a little more glamorous and a lot less mundane.
Believe the hype – Wet Leg really are everything we said they were.
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.
While Chambers and Teasdale are still discovering what they can do, they're having a lot of fun finding out, and Wet Leg more than delivers on the promise of their viral beginnings.
Wet Leg’s hotly anticipated self-titled debut is no slapped-together producer’s vision of what the kids should like. Its authenticity is what makes it so addictive, so accessible.
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.
Brisk and adrenalised, Wet Leg leaves little room to get bored, and is impressively low on filler for a debut.
Wet Leg ... is the sound of a plan coming together — the novelty wearing off, but a different light switching on, all day long and beyond.
It’s the careful balance of lyrical self-awareness and indifference amidst post-punk guitar that keeps you on your toes.
Wet Leg's deep cuts don't really match the singles.
Fun and unassuming is the way Wet Leg’s debut kicks off with Being In Love gently chugging along followed by the ever poppy Chaise Longue.
Shoegazey with a pushing rhythm section Angelica is fuzzy and phat with full bodied bass and likely a future party tune. With backing vocals that echo the Pixies and a guitar hook that sounds like the Nirvana version of The Man Who Sold The World - I Don’t Wanna Go Out approaches growing up from not the point of view of an adolescent teenager ... read more
I was pretty excited for Wet Leg's self-titled given how great the singles were, and you can bet I wasn't disappointed at all with it. Sure, they aren't exactly the most original band in the world but that doesn't really matter for me since what they're trying to do isn't meant to be new or innovative, but rather they're trying to make fun and infectious songs which they do successfully. There's plenty of Post-Punk Revival type bangers all over this album with tongue-in-cheek relationship ... read more
1 | Being in Love 2:02 | 75 |
2 | Chaise Longue 3:19 | 80 |
3 | Angelica 3:52 | 81 |
4 | I Don't Wanna Go Out 3:41 | 71 |
5 | Wet Dream 2:20 | 81 |
6 | Convincing 2:37 | 69 |
7 | Loving You 3:39 | 69 |
8 | Ur Mum 3:21 | 77 |
9 | Oh No 2:29 | 71 |
10 | Piece of Shit 2:48 | 71 |
11 | Supermarket 3:10 | 67 |
12 | Too Late Now 3:29 | 75 |
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