This live version of Chaise Longue that came out last week got a decent chuckle out of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FELWZcmZw
Whatever they do with their career, I'm just eternally grateful to them for speaking the words chaise longue out loud because I've been running around calling it a chase lounge for eternity. I feel very continental now.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
hah, that has endeared me to them (and the song) a fair bit I must say
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
that was good fun
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
New song really really really not at the level of Chaise Longue
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
I wonder how much people would be talking about these two songs if they were the new singles by, like, the Breeders or Warpaint or even Dry Cleaning. I really fail to hear what's supposed to be so special about this beyond "whoa, new thing!"
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
+1 for "not getting it at all"
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
I imagine people my age would be talking about the funny new Breeders single a lot, people the age of the band Wet Leg would probably just tell their parents that band they like has a new funny song.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.nme.com/news/music/wet-leg-named-ambassadors-for-independent-venue-week-2022-3080853
this band has released TWO SONGS
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 October 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
I get that they feel like a new exciting and distinct proposition in the greater "UK indie" landscape but this is odd.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 31 October 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
Every generation needs its “Where’s me Jumper?”
They will get really sick of doing it when the touring kicks in.
― Position Position, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
'Smoko' was surely this generation's Where's Me Jumper?. Maybe there's an allocation for one per hemisphere.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
Sometimes elevated presentation is enough
― imago, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
i don't mind this band or these songs, but this is otm:
I wonder how much people would be talking about these two songs if they were the new singles by, like, the Breeders or Warpaint or even Dry Cleaning. I really fail to hear what's supposed to be so special about this beyond "whoa, new thing!"― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:54 AM (two weeks ago)
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9:54 AM (two weeks ago)
― alpine static, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/30/wet-leg-omeara-london-review
According to the band, they formed at the top of a ferris wheel, drunk, after a 2019 Idles festival set.
Chambers and Teasdale might have named themselves after a loss of bladder control – there is a wicked ick factor to a lot of their lyrics – but “wet leg” could equally describe the ejaculatory critical response to them.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
I assumed the latter, but am curious myself.
― Lee626, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
Or maybe she just spilled her diet coke
― Lee626, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
Wet Dream has grown on me, I hope there's a live video coming from the festival above.
"Why does band X get this attention but not band Y" is such a dead end to go down. The Breeders had a platinum record (almost) 30 years ago, Warpaint is big, not hard to imagine why this version of sprechgesang is more approachable than Dry Cleaning (or Billy Nomates or Lithics or etc.).
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 1 November 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
Dry Cleaning haven't, to my knowledge, done anything close to as immediate or as catchy as this one. I totally get why it's popular although yeah I also don't think it's THAT remarkable beyond a certain amount of strange novelty. It's a juggernaut though, isn't it? I'm getting it advertised to heavily on social and I'm going to guess that most non-rock music fans I know are aware of it.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 1 November 2021 10:11 (two years ago) link
it's not like we're paying huge amounts of attention to what's otherwise going on in British indie music either
― boxedjoy, Monday, 1 November 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link
Really want to hear Kim Deal singing Chaise Longue now.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 1 November 2021 12:19 (two years ago) link
And now I want to hear Black Francis singing it.
[screaming:] Would ya like us to assign someone ta buttah ya muffin?[four bars of asthmatic wheezing]
― Vast Halo, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
I mean "UMass" and "Chaise Longue" make kind of a good A-side/B-side "I Went To College And It Was OK" record
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
Trying to sleep but I've got this mashed up in my head with Beez In The Trap
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB3PJwPMHzQ
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
OH MY GOD
they have a third song
― imago, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
Honestly though, what an absolute triumph of PR this has all been. The industry's still got it
― imago, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
Apparently they played seven songs at their Pfork Fest Paris show (doesn't say if they were all originals, ha ha).
But yeah I don't really "get it" w/r/t this particular band...
― quiet coyote (morrisp), Monday, 29 November 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
Here’s a fourth song, fwiw:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl15P0qeBVk
― quiet coyote (morrisp), Monday, 29 November 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
"Oh my god, life is hardcredit card - oh noYou're so woke, Diet CokeI feel gross - oh no"
brb gonna go drink some bleach
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 29 November 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
Never thought I’d hear the phrase “triumph of marketing” used about a 4AD release but we are a long way from the Ivo Watts-Russell years.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 29 November 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
the emperor has no clothes a GET NAKED sign on their wall
― imago, Monday, 29 November 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
oh no
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 29 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Wet Leg is a one-trick band much the same way Art Brut was, except 1000% more mundane.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:22 (two years ago) link
Come on, it's a pretty engaging trick, just not when deployed four times in four releases
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:33 (two years ago) link
xps - they’re on Domino, unless 4AD are releasing the album in some territories?
― hamicle, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link
going to say 'industry plant' just for the hell of it
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 10:31 (two years ago) link
yes, ufo, yes. come to the dark side
― imago, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
what's the one trick?
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
sardonic ranting and repetition over angular indie?
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 11:39 (two years ago) link
live at the wetleg trials
― imago, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
Chaise Lounge 7" showed up yesterday and my kids were dancing around the house like mad. Ordered the limited version of the album. ALL IN ON WET LEG!
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
trying to imagine how silly the hype would be if this were 2004 or so, it could surely be so much worse
they're fine but nothing special, the weird thing is of course how disproportionate the buzz around them is compared to the substance. imago generally otm here. like i am pretty sympathetic to parts of uk indie from the mid 00s but there's not really anything to get this excited about here idk
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
Cow Art All Inn Onn Wet Leg
― alpine static, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
really need a band called fresh pants to complete the wet leg / dry cleaning laundry cycle
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
With Pissed Jeans as opening act.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
New Pants plays on the following day.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
Am I the only one hearing an Electrelane influence in this one?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
xps - I did think after posting you were maybe thinking of Dry Cleaning.
― hamicle, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
Not trying to be overly-critical of jed_, but looking at the thread title, how cool are we with calling them a "girl band"?
On a related tangent, their more recent videos have the three dudes in them, which to me would indicate that they are more substantial than just ringers to fill out the live band. But then I haven't encountered any mention of them in press/interviews.
Also, discogs is like 5 For Sale from $63.60 re the 7"
― peace, man, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link