NEW ALBUMS
WET LEG
Moisturizer DOMINO
The Isle Of Wight quintet return, emboldened by love and new sounds.
By Fiona Shepherd
THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES
“I don’t want your love/I just wanna fight”
NEW ALBUMS
AUGUST 2025 TAKE 341
1 RYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND (P26)
2 MARK STEWART (P30)
3 THE NEW EVES (P34) 4 REBECCA SCHIFFMAN (P38)
FROM The Rolling Stones to Robert Palmer, love as a medical emergency is a perennial theme for songwriters. Well, sound the alarm and send out the paramedics once again, because Wet Leg are in love. It’s all over their second album, but explicitly ringing out as a klaxon call on current single “CPR”. “Hello 999, what’s your emergency?” asks Rhian Teasdale with call handler calm before making her orgasmic self-diagnosis: “I… I… I… I… I… I’m in love”. And when Teasdale sings she’s in love, you’d best believe she’s in love, however you want to spell it.
It’s quite the turnaround. Debut album Wet Leg was written post-break-up, its sass and snark enabling a playfully scornful catharsis. Most of the songs had been concocted purely for the amusement of Teasdale and fellow founder Hester Chambers, a sort of knockabout therapy. But the release of debut single “Chaise Longue” in the summer of 2021 changed everything. Wet Leg became an old-school overnight sensation, as the world beyond their Isle Of Wight home – an unexpected cultural ground zero, notwithstanding its festival history – fell bigtime for the song’s singular wit, louche hookline and deadpan call-and-response on buttered muffins and the like.