Indie rock sensation Wet Leg have already finished their second studio album – but fans won’t be getting to hear it quite yet.
Speaking to Absolute Radio at the Isle of Wight Festival last weekend, the pair confessed that it was “in the bag. Bish, bash, bosh.”
Wet Leg is comprised of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, friends from college who took the music world by storm when they released their first single, Chaise Longue, in June 2021.
That song promptly went viral and was followed by a self-titled debut album in April, which went to Number One in the UK and received rave reviews from critics – the Evening Standard’s David Smyth dubbed it a “silly, super fun success”.
They count among their fans Florence Welch, Iggy Pop and Paramore’s Hayley Williams and have been compared to both the Violent Femmes and Bjork.
Despite their success, the pair are remaining close-lipped on what their second album might contain, with Chambers joking that they would be tackling “death metal,” while Teasdale added that there would be a “lot of double kick” drumming.
“You’ll have to wait and see,” she said.
Currently, there is no release date scheduled for the album. However, they will be going on to perform as the warm-up act for Harry Styles’ Australia and New Zealand tour, which kicks off in February 2023.
“We’re really excited, it’s really cool, it’s very weird,” Teasdale told Absolute Radio. “It’s going to happen? Apparently.”
The interview also went onto discuss the pair’s appearance at the Isle of Wight – their hometown – at a festival they first performed at in 2018.
“It’s kind of scary coming to the Isle of Wight,” Teasdale said. “Everybody was like, are you excited to play the home show? And we’re like, ‘ahh…’”
It also seems as though their debut album was successful beyond their wildest dreams, with the interviewer asking them if they’d anticipated just how big it was going to be.
“Obviously, that’s what we were aiming for,” Chambers said.
“That was a joke… we s**t ourselves pretty hard when that album came out,” she said, adding that the aftermath of the release “was a mess.”
Here’s hoping that the second album – when it launches – will be just as big as the first.
