Wet Leg - moisturizer

 

Wet Leg — moisturizer

Sophomore album from the band founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers

Limited time album download included

Wet Leg — the Isle of Wight five-piece founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers — have announced their eagerly anticipated second album moisturizer.

Joined by Ellis Durand (bass), Henry Holmes (drums), and Joshua Mobaraki (guitar, synth), moisturizer is fun and freaky and fabulous, an unbridled display of the live muscle Wet Leg have built up throughout a few years of non-stop touring. Punchier, prettier and more perverted where it counts, moisturizer is an album of manic love songs and well-timed kiss-offs, delivered by a clan of the U.K.'s most beloved oddballs.

Touring all over the world, Wet Leg developed into a taut, caustic live operation that made good on their debut album's success: No. 1 chart placements at home and abroad, three Grammys, two Brit Awards and more than a half a billion streams. If success presents a fork in the road for any new band — to "go pop" or keep following your muse — Wet Leg emphatically chose the latter path — including working with Dan Carey again as their producer.

In March 2024, the band decamped to Southwold to write; living together, working all day, watching horror movies all night, they soon locked into a new sense of symbiosis. Subsequently, all five members of Wet Leg have writing credits on moisturizer — "We were just kind of having fun and exploring," says Chambers. "We focussed on: Is this going to be fun to play live? It was very natural that we would write the second record together," adds Teasdale.

Alongside the album announcement, the band also share the first taste of moisturizer with its frenetic, alluringly combative lead single "catch these fists." Kicking things off with an untameable, electrified groove from its opening seconds, "catch these fists" is dance-punk par excellence — bass notes ricocheting off a wall of howling synth, thunderous beats catching strays from Teasdale's cruel deadpan.

1. CPR

2. liquidize

3. catch these fists

4. davina mccall

5. jennifer's body

6. mangetout

7. pond song

8. pokemon

9. pillow talk

10. don’t speak

11. 11:21

12. u and me at home

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