CHAISE LONGUE or: How Wet Leg Buttered The Indie World's Muffin I New British Canon

Few modern rock bands have had the near immediate success of Wet Leg. Earning ungainly comparisons to Pavement, Liz Phair and The B-52s thanks to their deadpan talk-singing, Wet Leg’s musical formula was simple: loud guitars, fun times and not taking yourself too seriously. A welcome change of pace from the dour post-Brexit post-punk surrounding them. Released in the Summer of 2021, their buzzy debut single blended innuendo, Mean Girls references and French furniture to thrilling effect, perhaps even signalling a new dawn for UK rock. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Chaise Longue.”

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Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn.

00:00 Introduction
00:52 The Origin Story of Wet Leg
04:31 Writing "Chaise Longue"
09:10 Recording Their Debut Album
14:10 The Near Immediate Ascent of Wet Leg

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"Wet Leg: "The stars aligned and people connected with us, probably because of this endless year"" Kate Brayden, Hot Press, Feb 2022
"On my radar: Dave Grohl’s cultural highlights" Killian Fox, The Guardian, Feb 2022
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"Wet Leg Are the Buzziest New Band of the Year. They’re Just as Surprised as You Are" Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, Mar 2022
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"Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – going beyond the chaise longue on nuanced debut" Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, Apr 2022
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"Wet Leg: That Whole ‘Industry Plant’ Thing is ‘Misogyny’" Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, Oct 2022
"The Women of Wet Leg" John Seabrook, New Yorker, Jan 2023

Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine (  / luarbeats  )
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor (  / luarbeats  )

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