Powers: We represent three different generations and it's interesting: We all hear a bit of our youth in this band, the kind of moment in youth where you're still wild and experimenting, but you're also realizing that maybe this isn't so good for your brain. World Cafe Interview: Wet Leg talks about friendship and the journey to their debut album I hear a very specific strain of young, millennial messiness that has been really popular not just in music but in pop culture at large. And then this idea of the female f***-up in rock - that 2011 to 2016 era with acts like people like Bully and Childbirth and Tacocat who were kind of working in like Riot Grrrl lineage, almost in the same vein as Liz Phair's "F*** and Run": songs about being in your 20s and waking up hung over and sex being kind of reckless. post-punk revival, bands like Dry Cleaning and Shopping, who are drawing on the sounds of original post-punk groups like Kleenex, the Au Pairs and Delta 5. My contributions mostly came from two sonic spaces: one, the recent, mostly U.K. Hazel Cills: We made a 69-song playlist of all the things Wet Leg reminds us of. what are we talking about when we talk about Wet Leg? But we're picking up slightly different signals. Each of us hears an entire history of music in this band. where did they come from? Not literally, but in that lipstick-traces way in which all popular culture reflects many elements of its own past. To greet its release, three NPR Music staffers discussed the amalgamation of references bound up in Wet Leg's arrival.Īnn Powers: We're here together because we had the same question about Wet Leg - not whether they're the next big thing (who cares) or even good (with a band this cheeky, qualitative judgments seem extraneous), but. And while Teasdale and Chambers would probably roll their eyes at anyone who takes their music too seriously, this week they respond with a full-fledged statement of their own in Wet Leg's self-titled debut, a collection of free-wheeling rock songs peppered with dry talk-singing and sex jokes, but also real moments of millennial existentialism. Wet Leg is as fun to listen to as it is to think about, and in the band's loopy, addictive rock songs you can either turn your brain off completely, or turn your brain on to the sounds and styles of the far-reaching musical universe contained within it. As alluring and insouciant as those California boys Stephen Malkmus and Spiral Stairs were in 1992, Wet Leg's front duo of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers seemed to emerge fully-formed last summer with their sexy and silly single "Chaise Longue." And just as Pavement nodded without nodding at Jonathan Richman and the Velvet Underground, Wet Leg bears sonic echoes of New Wave and '00s indie rock, and aesthetic and thematic similarities to contemporary television shows and fiction. History repeats itself: Another crew of droll, deadpan rockers has slouched out of an unlikely locale to rattle indie rock awake. The songs made by Wet Leg, fronted by Rhian Teasdale (left) and Hester Chambers sound like they come from nowhere, and also everywhere.Īs the music critic Joe Levy wrote 30 years ago about Pavement, Wet Leg is a band that feels simultaneously like it came from nowhere and everywhere.
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