Rock newcomers Wet Leg made a big splash last year with their debut single "Chaise Longue," that was insanely catchy and pretty nonsensically funny. They followed up with some other great singles including "Wet Dream" and "Too Late Now," and now we're awaiting their self-titled debut album that's coming on April 8 via Domino. They confirmed today that it is indeed coming, joking: "Hope you like our 47 minute album version of chaise longue."
Well, who's to say. Maybe we'll get nearly an hour of that debut single and it might be prog-rock's finest work or drive us insane. In the meantime, they've kept us placated with an eerie cover of Madonna's "Material Girl." Part of Wet Leg's appeal is their lyrical flippancy and how their songs spin into magnetic catchiness. Here, they've taken the ironic consumerist classic and pumped it with an uneasy seduction. This shoegazey version isn't the fun, upbeat facade of comfort and consumption, but the begrudged, bitter sibling reminding us all that this is our current reality. Tired and out of breath from a capitalistic grind, might as well lean into it.
Hear it below.
