Wet Leg is the debut studio album by British rock duo Wet Leg, released on 8 April 2022 by Domino. It was promoted by the viral hit "Chaise Longue", followed by the singles "Wet Dream", "Too Late Now", "Oh No", "Angelica", and "Ur Mum". The album received acclaim from music critics, topped the charts in Australia and the United Kingdom, and entered the top ten charts in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand. It was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize and it won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards and nominated for Album of the Year at the 2023 Brit Awards.
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.
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."
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.
OMG. I almost forgot about this one! WOW. Frigging love hearing this again. What a unique sound. Love their crazy videos and lyrics!
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
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.
I fail to understand the hype around this band. A couple of good singles does not make an excellent album.
Wet leg
Quirky and fun and acerbically-clever. I enjoyed picking up the remnants of 2022 that I previously missed.
It's all right