Wet Leg want to be the most crucial part of your skincare routine with their forthcoming second studio album moisturizer, out July 11. Returning after three years, the band helmed by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers have previewed the record with its first single “catch these fists.”
“We were just kind of having fun and exploring,” Chambers shared in a statement. The dance-punk song is at once playful and threatening, set to a chaotic video marked by an impromptu kidnapping, milk swallowed down in huge gulps, and a kick line as Teasdale sings: “I don’t want your love, I just want to fight.”
For Teasdale, the primary focus while creating moisturizer with Chambers and producer Dan Carey was making sure it would be fun to perform live. “It was very natural that we would write the second record together,” she said.
The content itself was less natural as the musician warmed up to writing love songs from a new perspective. “I thought I was straight all of my life until I met my current partner — these love songs are about them,” Teasdale said. “I just found it so much more interesting and empowering to be writing love songs where I’m not lusting over a man — it feels a little bit different.”
In 2022, just months before they were awarded two Grammy Awards, Wet Leg told Rolling Stone they weren’t rushing into album number two. “Hopefully we have a bit of time next year to brainstorm. If we write an album in a week that we love, that’s sick, but if it’s actually gonna take a year .… we’ll have to wait and see,” Chambers said. “An album is like a snapshot, and you can set your intention. If you just want it to be, ‘This is what’s bringing us joy at the moment,’ that’s valid — or if you want to make sure it’s something, in your mind, that’s perfect, it takes a lot longer.”
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Teasdale added: “I’m excited to approach writing in a different way, because for the most part the album we just put out was mainly me and Hester. Now that we’ve got our band around us, I’m looking forward to a much more collaborative, less lockdown-induced album-making experience.”
Moisturizer Track List
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”
