Wet Leg

The debut album of Wet Leg is a good indie rock album. The lyrics are funny, eloquent and to the point. The hooks in the songs are great and the contrast between the innocent girlie vocals and the outspoken and ofte explicit lyrics and distorted guitars work very well. "Chaise Longue" and "Wet Dream" are modern classics.

Cool new group. I love this album, but not so much their new one that came out in 2025. But this album is a banger. I was singing Chaise Loungue for months after I heard it first.

I've been a Wet Leg since shorlty after this album came out (my last.fm stats say June 2022) and I saw them live twice on their debut tour. This year I saw them 3 times both pre- and post-release of their 2nd album. Needless to say, I am a massive fan. I love this album a ton and it's gotten a lot of play over the years. I'd say their follow-up album, moisturizer, cemented them as not just one-offs but a band that will be here for a long time. I'd say moisturizer is better in some places over this, but this has some absolute bangers that are so fun to see live. Now do I really think people should listen to this? This is tough. I always do recommend Wet Leg to people, but is it essential or something covered already on the list? I'm leaning towards a slight yes, but not a strong one. They are an amazing band but given what's on the OG list and the user list, I think they aren't really that required. My personal rating: 5/5 My rating relative to the list: 5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Slight yes.

Super catchy, energetic, and just downright fun indie rock. Chaise Longue and Wet Dream both absolutely slap, and Angelica and Ur Mum are both lots of fun as well. Being in Love is a great opener. There’s been some really quite awful online discourse about Wet Leg and honestly I’m just happy they’re still doing well and putting out great music (last year’s ‘moisturizer’ didn’t have a hit on the same level as the singles here in my opinion but was still a really solid album) and I’m excited to see what they do next

I fail to understand the hype around this band. A couple of good singles does not make an excellent album.

To my surprise this was already in my music library when I went to search for it. I didn’t remember listening to it at all until “Chaise Longue”. Yeah, I listened to this a while ago. “Wet Dream” was very familiar. As I read some background I realized that I had heard this duo on a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert on NPR during the lockdown. It’s quite catchy and I love the lead singers. Probably my favorite group from The Isle of Wight. Fun! Great stuff!

Fun, funny, catchy. A good listen. Just what you would hope from a band and album called "Wet Leg."

OMG. I almost forgot about this one! WOW. Frigging love hearing this again. What a unique sound. Love their crazy videos and lyrics!

Yep, this debut is one of the clear highlights of 2022 for me, if only because of its stellar singles, making such an impact for anyone still genuinely interested in the -- now long -- history of indie rock. And among those singles, of course, there's the unstoppable "Chaise Longue" and its tongue-in-cheek sprechgesang hook repeating that weird French word found in the English language over a propulsive, take-no-quarter beat. "Excuse me?" "What?" "Excuse me?" Where do Rhian Teasdale and Heather Chambers find such memorable one-liners, huh? "Chaise Longue" is not the only memorable single, though. You've got "Wet Dream"'s four-on-the-floor dance-rock regalia and handclaps, leading Rhian Teasdale and Heather Chambers to take a page out of the disco book with a huge wink. You've got cheeky and catchy "Ur Mum". You've got the bouncy, riot grrrrl-abrasive, and yet delicious "Oh No". Or you've got the wonderfully ironic ode to home and sedentary pleasures "Too Late Now", closing the LP on a terrific high note. So many instant keepers. Besides, the album is also absolutely fantastic because its supposed "deeper cuts" are actually as good as the singles mentioned up there, allowing the LP to thrive on a tracklist that's both varied and dynamic as hell, just as it goes from other spoken-word cuts to songs that are entirely "sung" elsewhere. Not a single dud is to be found in this tracklist. "Being In Love" is a killer opener. "... Piece Of Shit", "Supermarket" and Heather Chambers' "Convincing" are sweet and laid-back numbers going to all the right places. "I Don't Want To Go Out" quoting David Bowie's guitar hook on "The Man Who Sold The World" is such a great idea, and so is the song's chorus slowing down a notch (only a few bpm points) during its last iteration -- a very subtle change that yet completely turns the song on its head. Perfect production work by Dan Carey everywhere in the album, by the way. And, of course, Chambers and Teasdale's lyrics are both hilarious and precisely crafted. The duo very often lambast and lampoon and troll toxic men. But more importantly, they offer some precious laugh-out-loud moments as they do so (that "long-practiced" scream in "Ur Mum", so good). This is such fun stuff, c'mon! I was far less convinced by *Moisturizer*, released last year. Some of its singles were also terrific and memorable, but a lot of the rest sounded underwhelming to my ears, because the energy, songwriting and studio performance felt either lacking or a little "forced" there. Interestingly, a lot of the initial naysayers hurling dumb "industry plant" accusations on Teasdale and Chambers when *Wet Leg* was released seem to have changed their minds since (or at least stayed quiet), probably when they realize *Moisturizer* was equally popular for more general audiences. Oh the irony. Yet even if I consider *Moisturizer* sort of a letdown, don't count on me to change my mind on this debut. To put it in a nutshell, it's not because I'm not in love with Wet Leg's sophomore album that I'm gonna deny their overall skills all of a sudden. I value their debut so much, so maybe I was bound to be disappointed after it no matter what happens. Also, I really wish I could see Wet Leg play live one day, because from what I've seen online, Teasdale, Chambers and the boys backing them look like a killer act onstage. Third album will be pivotal to see if the band is here to stay in my eyes. One thing's for sure, though. That perfect debut IS here to stay. Because it gives such a fresh spin on the sort of women-fronted indie rock or indie-adjacent rock that has marked minds for decades now, from Blondie to The Breeders. Which kind of makes me want to say "ur mum" to those guys from the (misogynistic?) "old guard" who initially failed to see this. All day long, on a chaise longue, I could listen to this thing with a constant grin on my face. Isn't that what a great melodic indie-rock album is supposed to do to you guys? 5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums 10/10 for more general purposes (5 + 5) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 71 (including this one) Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 88 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 168 ---- Emile... Je viens de lire ta dernière réponse. Je vais essayer de trouver le temps de rédiger la mienne bientôt. D'ici-là, ben bonne année

I was aware of this band only because people are constantly posting pictures of the lead singer in the r/SexyMusicians subreddit. But I'd never taken the time to their music before. I'm glad I did, because it's really good. Catchy pop music, but with substance behind it. After listening to this I immediately went to their latest album and it's also great. Thanks for getting me to move past lustfully starting at photos of the singer to actually listening to their music! 4 stars.

Irreverent and funny

I liked this, maybe a little more than it deserved. That kind of slack, jangly post-hardcore indie rock vibe, Pavement and such, and the whole whispery girl vocal thing. Some of it lyrically very clever, some of it "you're so woke - diet coke", uh, whatever. But what the hell, it was doing it for me.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Angelica, Wet dream, Loving you, Oh no, Piece of shit

Oh no, music styles that I have nostalgia for are now acceptable retro mining! Oh no, Chaise Longue is already extremely dated as an earworm, I'm late to the party on the retro mining too!

Discovered this album a few years ago and gives me (slight) hope for modern music, I enjoy!

Great little indie LP. Will definitely revisit. Apparently one of these songs was a big thing for a hot second? I missed that, so the entire album was a joy of discovery.

Was a big fan of this album when it came out, my enthusiasm has waned a little more recently, probably given how much they were overplayed on the radio. But still a good example of modern indie music worthy of the list.

Cat ht fun indie thar feels a bit different.

I really enjoy this album. They’re a fun and refreshing group. Love their style and songwriting. The lyrics are good, the production is good, the whole thing is good. Doesn’t quite get to the point of blowing me away, but it’s close. 4/5

Really glad this is on here. I’ve been listening to the since this one came on my radar. Good example of some interesting things happening in modern music. Often I am skeptical about more recent albums. But in this case I’ll make an exception.

Dug the singles when this dropped in early 2022, but felt a bit hesitant to take the whole project in at once for fear the tongue-in-cheek energy would be too flagrant for the project to land successfully. Listening now in the context of Leg's recent sophomore LP, this debut makes sense even despite its shortcomings. There's definitely an overload of indie twee in the less-defined back half (the crowd vocals on "Supermarket" were the tipping point and I kinda hated that song in particular), but the sheer strength of personality throughout the rest of the LP mostly carries the project. The catchy, ripping instrumentals flirt with electronic elements while remaining firmly grounded in solid indie rock, and the lyrics as a whole pull off the band's wink-wink nod-nod ethos without overdoing it too much. Feels at once both a more and less subtle 2020s version of Pavement if that makes any sense.

I wanted to get the hype but I don’t.

I wanted to like this more than I liked it

Indie rock, post-punk revival, Britpop, pop-punk, indie pop. Ni fu ni fa.

A decent indie alternative album that may be too modern for me to fully grasp the impact this has on people. I found it to be entertaining and the lyricism was fine, funny at times. The production is what I felt made this album pretty average as only a few songs stuck out. This is fine. 6.2/10

In the wave of post-punk revival-informed indie rock of the 2020s (starting with the Strokes, and most recently with the newest bar italia), Wet Leg seemed to make reasonably-sized splash that would land them grammys in the alternative music category. Worth noting that those grammys were for the somewhat polarizing song Chaise Lounge, which featured a deadpan talk-singing style that came across as more annoying than charming. Regardless, that song was moreso the exception than the rule because Wet Leg's eponymous debut is full of regular singin' over subdued indie rock songs. There's an air of effortless upper-middle class chic that comes with being a band from the Isle of Wight. Not a bad collection of songs but nothing that really impressed me either. CONTENDER FOR THE LIST: There are more impressive bands from recent years that are more deserving of a spot tbh.

Wet leg

Quirky and fun and acerbically-clever. I enjoyed picking up the remnants of 2022 that I previously missed.

Remember when that one song was an indie pop classic for a few months? I do

I'd give this one a 3.5!

I liked this okay but the record was kind of forgettable.

Ok poprock music with powerful, feminine lyrucs

Not bad

It's all right

eh. When these guys hit a friend of mine was ecstatic about them and I ... sort of get it? For me they're a novelty act that is "funny" (ish) for a song ("Chaise Longue") or two but over a longer span - not to mention an entire album - it just falls flat. So I'm the sourpuss here - I'm just not a fan of "cheeky" music. Lyrics/vocals are an instrument at best for me as a part of the whole and so when it's the overpowering focus like...what are we even doing here. I know - again, it's me - but "ooo hahaha lyrics" - eh it's not just the Pitchfork Wet Dream acts (ok it's a catchy song but even before the 2 minute song is done I'm tired of it) like Wet Leg, but e.g. it's also what takes me out of too many Frank Zappa albums and I love that guy's music. I know a lot of ppl love them - great - and they seem like they're having fun / not taking themselves too seriously. And that's the exact aspect I don't like, weirdly. I just don't have much interest in low-level (effort?) close-vocals; i.e. I almost feel like I'd have this as a strong 4 with different vocals but there you go... TL;DR: definitely will be a hit for many, just not my bag, baby. I do like "Convincing" quite a bit, tho. 5/10 2 stars. IMO: Belonged in the book? No. A good user suggestion but too recent for any consideration.

At first I was really intrigued and it sounded like something I had never heard before, but as time went on, it got a little try hard if that makes sense.

Starting to notice that "Clever lyrics" is code for "This album will be talking about jacking off in quirky euphemisms". Not a big fan of tongue-in-cheek quirky lyrics in general, and that's sort of what this band spent like 95 of their 100 skill points on.