This Friday, the Isle of Wight’s Wet Leg will release their eagerly anticipated self-titled debut album.
Since unleashing their first single in June last year, things have moved at lightning speed for the Island’s very own Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – from selling out all their live shows in minutes and performing on US TV 3 times, to racking up 40million global streams and 9million YouTube views.
Before all 12 tracks from ‘Wet Leg’ are revealed, today the duo share new song ‘Ur Mum’.
Ur Mum opens with a spectacular insult lobbed in the direction of an ex-boyfriend, but the song also nods to outgrowing the slow pace of life and smalltown energy of the Island and results in Rhian letting out her “longest and loudest scream” for 11.02 seconds.
Teasdale says of the song:
“I was pretty angry at way things had gone in this particular dynamic. It’s just a diss song I wrote to make myself feel better. It worked.”
The band have just completed an extensive round of touring in North America including roadblock SXSW showcases, playing the Academy Awards pre-party for YSL, as well as performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Late Late Show with James Corden.
They’ve also confirmed their UK & Irish touring plans for November 2022, including 2 dates at London’s O2 Forum which, as with almost all these new autumn 2022 UK & Irish shows, are already sold-out. Fresh from their appearance at the BBC 6 Music Festival this weekend, they’ve been announced for BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekender in May and are also as the only addition to BBC Radio 1’s Brit List.
Debut album ‘Wet Leg’ is available to pre-order on exclusive clear vinyl (with a 7” of 2 non-album tracks) via the band’s webstore, standard vinyl, cassette, CD and digitally. A variety of merch (T-shirt, print) is available as a pre-order bundle too. Pre-order: Wet Leg Store | Digital.
These young women are super cool and are making fun, fantastic music. I wish them the best of luck, we should be really proud of them