Wet Leg are back. The Isle of Wight’s most chaotic export – fronted by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – have officially announced their second album, moisturizer, out July 11th. Now fleshed out into a full-blown five-piece with Ellis Durand, Henry Holmes and Joshua Mobaraki, Wet Leg have spent the last few years transforming from indie darlings into a well-oiled live beast. Touring all over the world, Wet Leg developed into a taut, caustic live operation that made good on their debut’s success: #1 chart placements in Australia and the UK, three Grammys, two Brits and over half a billion streams.
While some bands fumble when faced with post-success existential dread, Wet Leg doubled down on what makes them tick. They reunited with producer Dan Carey, shacked up together in Southwold, watched horror films all night, and wrote all day. The result? A record born out of deep-band telepathy, mischief, and mutual obsession.
The first taste of moisturizer comes via lead single ‘catch these fists’ – a feral, synth-splattered dance-punk banger that sees Teasdale deadpan her way through another round with the worst man alive. The self-directed video nods to Ti West, Cameron Crowe, and their own ‘Wet Dream’ clip – equal parts creepy, cheeky, and cursed.
Previously wary of writing love songs, Teasdale now revels in them, wielding emotion like a weapon and a joke at the same time. The album cover says it all: Chambers and Teasdale flaunt grotesque claws, Teasdale’s brows are gone, her socks are loud, and the grin is pure chaos. moisturizer is Wet Leg turning everything up – the volume, the sleaze, the weirdness – and strutting into album two with fangs bared and middle fingers raised.
Stream ‘catch these fists’ HERE.
Pre-order moisturizer HERE.
