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Wet Leg at O2 Academy Brixton review: the millennial cult you want to join

4/5 The indie rockers are playing to their strengths as they tease their new album

Evening Standard

Wet Leg star Rhian Teasdale: I was completely naive about the music industry

Music star Rhian Teasdale has confessed to being "naive" about the pressures of fame and success.

BANG Premier

‘This weird dream just keeps going!’ Wet Leg on overnight success, sexual epiphanies and facing fears

The UK indie-rockers won two Grammys for their debut album. Ahead of their second, they explain how they protected one another amid sudden fame – and how queer love and Davina McCall inspired them

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“Contains love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious.” Wet Leg announce second album Moisturizer, share new single Catch These Fists

Wet Leg are back, with a “fun and freaky and fabulous” follow-up to their 2022 debut album

Louder

"I probably should get recognised" – original Wet Leg member breaks cover, says he's uncredited on songs he co-wrote

Doug Richards formed the band with Rhian Teasdale in 2019

MusicRadar

Wet Leg at the Royal Albert Hall review: a riotously entertaining show from the recent Brits winners

Did they blow the roof off the Royal Albert Hall? No, but they came pretty close

Evening Standard

Who are Wet Leg? The indie rock band who won twice at the Grammy Awards 2023 and whose name has everyone scratching their heads

The new band were big winners at the Grammy Awards 2023

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Wet Leg's little-known Merseyside link as band bags Grammy awards

The band, made up of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, have a special connection with Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

Formby-born singer receives four BRIT nominations and will perform at awards ceremony

Critics have praised her band's debut album

Liverpool Echo

The 50 best albums of 2022: No 8 – Wet Leg: Wet Leg

The year’s buzziest duo picked apart millennial malaise – and the desire to delay adulthood – with smart gags and catchy choruses on the year’s breakout guitar album

The Guardian - UK

Wet Leg review – 2022’s breakout indie stars on comically good form

Despite having fans in Iggy Pop and Barack Obama, the Isle of Wight duo are sticking with small venues for now – and enlivening them with joy and hilarity

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Emily Beecham’s cultural highlights

The Pursuit of Love actor on her favourite tapas restaurant, a podcast about failed auditions and a revealing new history of female artists

The Guardian - UK

Wet Leg, adorably, have no idea what the Grammys are

LOS ANGELES — Rhian Teasdale doesn't take long to answer when asked to identify her last truly brutal hangover.

Los Angeles Times

Who are Wet Leg? How British rock duo met – and what their name means

Isle of Wight alt-rock duo Wet Leg are one of the favourites to bag the Mercury Prize 2022 for their self-titled debut album, which features the hit single Chaise Longue

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The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg’s cultural highlights

The musician on the artistic commitment of Mitski, the lasting value of Peep Show and her new favourite snacks

Chicago Sun-Times

Lollapalooza Day 2 reviews: Dua Lipa delivers a club vibe, Machine Gun Kelly plays up the pop-punk

And check out our takes on Glass Animals, MUNA, Binki, Tinashe, Wet Leg, Mahalia and Taipei Houston at the Grant Park festival.

Evening Standard

Wet Leg’s second album is “in the bag” - but there’s no release date yet

The indie rock duo are blessing us with more bangers

Evening Standard

Wet Leg - Wet Leg review: A surreal, silly, super fun success

Good luck squeezing into any festival tents that these up-and-up indie rockers play this summer

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The Independent UK

Album reviews: Wet Leg – Wet Leg, and Camila Cabello – Familia

Wet Leg live up to the hype on a deliciously bawdy debut, while Camila Cabello’s latest leaves listeners cold

The Guardian - UK

Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – going beyond the chaise longue on nuanced debut

With millennial angst and humour to spare, the duo’s quarter-life crisis album has a much broader remit than their repetitive breakout single

The Guardian - UK

Wet Leg: Wet Leg review – absurdist delights and damp squibs

The ribald charms of theIsle of Wight duo’s first two singles have been replaced by indie rock about rubbish exes on their surprisingly conventional debut

Tribune News Service

British duo Wet Leg is happy to be a 'baby band' — one that's already playing sold out shows

With little else to do on a mid-pandemic January night, the future members of Wet Leg decided to have some fun improvising on a drum machine and synthesizer at home on England's Isle of Wight.

Evening Standard

Meet Wet Leg, the British rock band to know now

With their esoteric lyrics — ‘Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?’ — becoming festival-chant-fodder, Wet Leg are the UK’s most hotly tipped rock band. Sarfraz Manzoor tracks them down

Evening Standard

Wet Leg at the 100 Club review: the honeymoon continues

The Isle of Wight band’s upward trajectory is showing no sign of slipping

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