Programming note: After a quieter week of transfer activity, hoddle headquarters can announce the new hoddle hero will be revealed on Monday.
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Wet Leg are finally out with their new album, Moisturizer.
Those who read the hoddle (lol) know how much your hoddler-in-chief has been looking forward to this album. Wet Leg exploded onto the post-punk scene when they released Chaise Lounge, which they followed with a very successful debut album.
Their follow-up features a much stronger cache of songwriting,
and it isn’t lost on me that frontwoman Rhian Teasdale and guitarist Hester Chambers opened up the song-writing process to other members of the band.
The result is a very smart, mature and formidable second output. Oddly enough one of the few songs that doesn’t fit is their lead single catch these fists, whose seemingly meaningless lyrics would fit better on their previous album.
Another major change that we see in this album is the physicality of Tesdale, who ditched her Victorian-era get-up with a far sharper look: strawberry/platinum hair, large biceps and freeing the hair under her armpits.
The last glastonbury we played in 2022 was such a momentous moment for us that we kinda made peace with the fact we might not top it But to return on a bigger stage and have so many of you turn up for us to listen to new songs off an unreleased album means so much to us! pic.twitter.com/9pHf3MUJXh
— Wet Leg (@wetlegband) July 1, 2025
These songs also came forth out of a new relationship for her. And that’s what makes this so interesting.
It can be easy for love songs to feel unchallenging but Teasdale captures the ranging emotions brilliantly. We have the euphoric CPR, a love confessional that namedrops presenter Davina McCall, and the bubbly Pokemon - to name a few.
I felt Side 2 was a little bit weaker than an explosive Side 1, and that’s where I feel this album slightly stumbles. But that’s more nitpicky than anything else.
Wet Leg’s first offering catapulted them to the very centre of the post punk world. This album cements their place as one of the most exciting artists to occupy that space.
4.25 out of 5 Fitzies
Fitzie’s track of the day: Mangetout, by Wet Leg (NSFW for naughty words)
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