“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

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Wet Leg have announced details of their second album Moisturizer , set for release via Domino on July 11.

The Isle of Wight five-piece, fronted by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, describe the follow-up to their self-titled 2022 debut album as “fun and freaky and fabulous” and claim it's “punchier, prettier and more perverted where it counts”.

A press statement from the band's record label says that Moisturizer, produced by Speedy Wunderground head honcho Dan Carey, is “an album of manic love songs and well-timed kiss-offs, delivered by a clan of the UK’s most beloved oddballs.”

“We were just kind of having fun and exploring,” says Hester Chambers.

Rhian Teasdale adds, “We focussed on: Is this going to be fun to play live? It was very natural that we would write the second record together.”

The first taste of Moisturizer comes with in the form of new single catch these fists, which the good people at Domino describe as “dance-punk par excellence”, and which we're told was inspired by an interaction with a belligerent man.

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Furthermore, we're informed that Moisturizer contains “love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious”, and that the record is “unapologetically bolder, stronger and raunchier” than anything the group have released in the past.

The group have also announced a short UK headline tour in May. Wet Leg will call at:

May 21: Birmingham O2 Academy
May 23: London O2 Academy Brixton
May 27: Edinburgh Usher Hall
May 28: Leeds O2 Academy
May 29: Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse

Tickets for the tour will be on pre-sale from April 9 at 10am, general sale from April 11 at 10am. Fans can pre-order the album for access to the first pre-sale.

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.