The band performed “CPR,” “Mangetout,” “Davina McCall,” and “11:21” from their upcoming album set for release on Friday, July 11
Wet Leg brought their slippery new album Moisturizer to NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers selected four songs from the record, out Friday, July 11, to showcase their latest era alongside guitarist Joshua Mobaraki, bassist Ellis Durand, and drummer Henry Holmes.
Wet Leg opened the set with “CPR,” a dark and twisted love song where Teasdale panic calls the authorities. Her emergency? “The thing is, I think I’m in love.” The band followed with the unreleased track “Mangetout” and their recent single “Davina McCall.” The final song of their performance marked the live debut of “11:21,” an outlier ballad in their discography. Teasdale revealed before they began that they’ve “never played it outside of the comfort of our practice room before.”
Anyone missing the Wet Leg hits “Chaise Longue” and “Wet Dream” can revisit the band’s 2021 Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. For now, they’re focused on the future. “An album is like a snapshot, and you can set your intention,” Chambers told Rolling Stone in 2022. “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.”
In a review of Moisturizer, Rolling Stone wrote: “On their second album, Moisturizer, Wet Leg prove they’ve been partying harder, traveling faster, caring less, and meeting sexier idiots. If you thought they might catch a case of sophomore-slump neurosis, you guessed wrong. They crank up the drum mix, enough to make you suspect they hang out in some pretty sleazy rock clubs these days, for a sound that’s aimed at the floor … The emotions on Moisturizer range from crushed-out bliss to break-up rage. But wherever Wet Leg go, they make you want to tag along.”
