Wet Leg have announced full details of their new album ‘Moisturizer’ and shared comeback single ‘Catch These Fists’.
The Isle Of Wight band will release the follow-up to their 2022 self-titled debut album on July 11 on various formats including a limited edition 3D gatefold cream coloured vinyl with a signed photo, picture disc vinyl, standard vinyl, cassette, CD and digitally. You can pre-order/pre-save the record here.
They have also shared the first taster from the album, ‘Catch These Fists’, a frenetic, catchy track which focuses on an “interaction with a belligerent man”. You can listen to it below.
The video, which you can view below, was directed by the band and shot on the Isle Of Wight. It has nods to “Amercian director Ti West, Cameron Crowe and their own ‘Wet Dream’ video and is a suitably off-kilter introduction to moisturizer valley,” according to a press release.
The album saw the band decamp to Southwold to write and record their LP with producer with Dan Carey, who worked on their debut. “We were just kind of having fun and exploring,” said Hester Chambers before Rhian Teasedale added: “We focused on: ‘Is this going to be fun to play live?’ It was very natural that we would write the second record together.”
According to a press release ‘Moisturizer’, which sees all five members contributing to the album, is “fun and freaky and fabulous” and “it is an album of manic love songs and well-timed kiss-offs, delivered by a clan of the UK’s most beloved oddballs.”
It also “contains love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious.”
You can view the full tracklisting for ‘Moisturizer’ below:
1. ‘CPR’
2. ‘liquidize’
3. ‘catch these fists’
4. ‘davina mccall’
5. ‘jennifer’s body’
6. ‘mangetout’
7. ‘pond song’
8. ‘pokemon’
9. ‘pillow talk’
10. ‘don’t speak’
11. ’11:21′
12. ‘u and me at home’
The band have also announced a UK tour, which is set to kick off at O2 Academy Birmingham on May 21, before calling at further stops in London, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester.
Tickets for the tour will go on pre-sale from Wednesday, April 9 at 10am BST here, before going on general sale on Friday, April 11 at 10am here.
Wet Leg will play:
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21 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
23 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
27 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
28 – O2 Academy, Leeds
29 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
The band recently debuted their new single at a tiny gig in Brighton and in London, along with six other new songs.
The band’s last release was their 2022 self-titled debut LP. It earned them two Grammy Awards, for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Alternative Music Performance, while in 2023, they also won the BRIT Award for Best British Group.
The record received a glowing five-star review from NME‘s Rhian Daly, who wrote: “Wet Leg began life while Teasdale and Chambers were riding a Ferris wheel at a festival, where the pair decided to give music another chance; fittingly, their debut album feels like a giddy race around a funfair, those pesky lows batted away with wit and wisecracks like a game of verbal whack-a-mole.”
Elsewhere, Wet Leg are set to perform at a handful of festivals including Glastonbury, Green Man, Shaky Knees Festival, Roskilde Festival, Wilderness Festival, Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Liverpool, TRNSMT 2025, Boardmasters, All Together Now Festival and Øya Festival.
