When Wet Leg dropped Chaise Longue as their debut single in 2021, it was perhaps the most thrilling birth of a post-punk band we’ve seen in recent years. The fanfare around their first album was immense, with listeners divided between hailing the Isle of Wight duo as the Next Big Thing or hurling age-old, and nonsensical, accusations that they were industry plants. Three years of near silence followed before they announced their second album, moisturizer. Needless to say, the pressure is on.
On moisturizer, Wet Leg have partially moved on from the cool, aloof air of Wet Dream and Chaise Longue in favour of something more vulnerable and romantic. They’re not the only ones of their cohort; fellow members of the post-punk elite Fontaines D.C., IDLES, and The Murder Capital have been steadily moving towards more personal lyricism.
