Yet despite the group’s often humorous lyrics and videos, these days, it’s hard to avoid some seriousness creeping in. “I guess how it happened was unconventional,” Chambers admits. The album was mostly recorded in London, in April 2021, meaning they had a finished album before the world had even heard debut single “Chaise Longue” or played live. Wet Leg was recorded and mostly produced by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey (“Chaise Longue” and “Angelica” were produced by Jon McMullen and Josh Mobaraki respectively). The video for “Too Late Now,” directed by Fred Rowson, continues in offbeat surrealism of its predecessors, with the band “beamed in from space to seek out the bubble bath of enlightenment.” Maybe don’t indulge that thought too much though. I think this song is about accepting that life can feel a bit shit from time to time. Sometimes I get really inside my head and everything can feel very overwhelming. I never imagined that my adult life would look the way it does and I guess this song reflects on some of the pressures and pulls of life. Hailing from the unlikely locale of the Isle of Wight in southern England, the group’s core members - Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers - have released two new songs, “Too Late Now” and “Oh No.” As Teasdale notes in the the announcement, “Too Late Now” is “about sleepwalking into adulthood. Britain’s Wet Leg, one of the most buzzed-about indie groups to emerge in years via their singles “Chaise Longue” and “Wet Dream,” have dropped two new songs and unveiled the release date for their forthcoming debut album and a big pile of tour dates in the U.S.
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