Wet Leg Announce Self-Titled Debut Album, Share Two New Singles

After making a grand entrance this past summer with their killer single “Chaise Longue,” English duo Wet Leg have announced their self-titled debut album, coming April 8, 2022, on Domino. Out now alongside the details of Wet Leg are two new tracks, “Too Late Now” (with a video directed by Fred Rowson) and “Oh No.”

Hailing from the Isle of Wight, Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers make “sad music for party people, and party music for sad people,” as a press release puts it. “Wet Leg was originally just supposed to be funny,” says Teasdale. “As a woman, there’s so much put on you, in that your only value is how pretty or cool you look. But we want to be goofy and a little bit rude. We want to write songs that people can dance to. And we want to people to have a good time, even if that might not possible all of the time.”

June standout “Chaise Longue” and September’s “Wet Dream” bore out that vision, with “Too Late Now” and “Oh No” now following suit—the former is a propulsive rocker about young adult identity crises and brain fog (“Now everything is going wrong / I think I changed my mind again / I’m not sure if this is a song / I don’t even know what I’m saying”), while the latter is a lurching stomper about doomscrolling (“Suck the life from my eyes / It feels nice”). Wet Leg continue to juggle bottled-lightning energy with incisive humor and an innate sense of melody, a winning combination.

Teasdale says “Too Late Now” is “about sleepwalking into adulthood,” explaining:

I never imagined that my adult life would look the way it does and I guess this song reflects on some of the pressures and pulls of life. Sometimes I get really inside my head and everything can feel very overwhelming. I think this song is about accepting that life can feel a bit shit from time to time. Maybe don’t indulge that thought too much, though. Just take some time for yourself. Take a breath. Have a bath. It might make you feel a bit better.

Of “Oh No,” she simply asks, “You know when you’re having dinner with someone, and they check their phone, and just … go?”

Wet Leg recorded their self-titled debut in London in April 2021 with Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey, who produced 10 of its 12 tracks (Jon McMullen and Josh Mobaraki produced “Chaise Longue” and “Angelica,” respectively). Teasdale and Chambers had finished their album before they had even played a show, let alone witnessed the adulation around their debut single.

The duo will play their first U.S. shows in December, with dates already sold out in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers set for Dec. 8, and slots supporting CHVRCHES at a handful of California shows. Their first full North American tour, just announced, is set for March 2022.

Check out “Too Late Now” and “Oh No” below, and find the details of Wet Leg further down, along with the duo’s tour dates.