Wet Leg share teaser of first new music in three years
Wet Leg have shared a 30-second teaser of their first new music in three years – check it out below.
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The snippet comes a day after the Isle Of Wight band posted on their social media channels on Monday (March 17) to announce, “We’re so back”, along with a photo and a link to their website.
Now, the group have gone further by sharing a video clip of singer and guitarist Rhian Teasdale walking down the street singing a new song while filming herself. No further information has been provided, other than a glass of milk emoji alongside the Instagram post.
“Can you catch a medicine ball / Can you catch yourself when you fall / You should be careful, do you catch my drift / Cuz what I really want to know is can you catch these fists,” Chambers sings. Discordant guitar notes clatter and chime behind her, before she exclaims: “MAN DOWN”.
Watch the clip here:
The link Wet Leg shared on Monday took users to their official website, where you are then directed to a landing page that features the band’s name in a magenta font with a hill and house in the background.
A pop-up screen also appears and reads: “Salutations, lonely heart. You have wandered far, but you are home now. Enter Moisturizer Valley – where the skin never cracks, and the body never withers. Enroll now and learn how to live forever.” It encourages fans to sign up for email notifications from the band.
The band’s last release was their 2022 self-titled debut LP. It earned them two Grammy Awards, for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Alternative Music Performance, while in 2023, they also won the BRIT Award for Best British Group.
The record received a glowing five-star review from NME‘s Rhian Daly, who wrote: “Wet Leg began life while Teasdale and Chambers were riding a Ferris wheel at a festival, where the pair decided to give music another chance; fittingly, their debut album feels like a giddy race around a funfair, those pesky lows batted away with wit and wisecracks like a game of verbal whack-a-mole.”
‘Angelica’ was also crowned the 13th best song of 2022 by NME, and they clinched the second spot in NME‘s list of the 50 best albums of 2022, with Andrew Trendell writing: “Witty yet warm and stupidly fun, this self-titled debut saw the pair follow in the footsteps of their Domino labelmates Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand with an idiosyncratic style, personality and class, delivering an album that not only lived up to the hype, but slapped a much-needed smile back on the face of British guitar music.”
Elsewhere, Wet Leg are set to perform at a handful of festivals including Glastonbury, Green Man, Shaky Knees Festival, Roskilde Festival, Wilderness Festival, BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend in Liverpool, TRNSMT 2025, Boardmasters, All Together Now Festival, Øya Festival.
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Max Pilley
NME
