Wet Leg - Moisturizer (Domino) - God Is In The TV

Album Review: Wet Leg, ‘moisturizer’

On the first song of their self-titled debut album, Wet Leg were feeling uninspired, beaten down, and zoned out, equating it all to the same oddly desirable state: ‘Being in Love’. Three years later, the Isle of Wright five-piece – helmed by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – open their sophomore album by reevaluating: being in love isn’t a thing you “kinda like.” It’s an emergency. It makes you sound ravenous, maniacal, silly, and melodramati…

Wet Leg - Moisturizer (Domino) - God Is In The TV

Remember the days when bands actually used to disappear from view for a bit? They’d have their big hit record, tour it as a lap of honour and then you wouldn’t hear a peep from them for a year or two until the difficult second record was ready. Not these days. Newly-expanded-into-a-five-piece Wet Leg, like so many acts once they get on the music industry live/recording hamster wheel, never look like they ever have anytime off, never mind enough …