With just days to go until new album ‘Moisturiser’ is released, it still feels like
Wet Leg are incapable of putting a foot wrong. A flawless debut album and a run of pre-release singles for the follow-up which are just as good, they stride out to a well-deserved mob of fans. Singer Rhian Teasdale has spent the last few years becoming a very good frontwoman, going from theatrically disaffected eyerolls to bicep-flexing on ‘catch these fists’, and selling new single ‘davina mccall’ with so much energy that the crowd respond to it like an old favourite.
Not that the classics are given short shrift. ‘Wet Dream’ continues to be the kind of turbo-banger any band would kill to have written, while ‘Chaise Longue’ slots in so well among the new material that it’s hard to believe it was their first ever single. Sneaking in alongside these early cuts are new songs ‘mangetout’ and ‘jennifer's body’, more bouncy bangers which are a taste of what the future holds for one of the best bands around right now.
It’s been a long ol’ wait for Wet Leg to break cover and show the world where they’ve gone since album one hit the top of the charts and launched them straight into the spotlight. Today they prove that not only has it been worth waiting for, but that, judging by this set, the best is still to come.
