As heard on the LOUD WOMEN Radio Show last night – about zero minutes after it dropped (first play?) – Wet Leg’s new single ‘CPR’ is a deranged little love song that lands like a punch to the chest. Opening track from their upcoming album moisturizer (out 11 July), it’s a sharp left turn from romance-as-we-know-it, where tenderness crashes headfirst into nihilism, sleaze and high camp. Over a lurching, breathy beat, Rhian Teasdale’s deadpan musings on love quickly unravel into full-frontal chaos, screaming “Is it love? Or suicide?” like it’s a sexy little joke. Which, of course, it is.
Sonically, it’s all tension and tease: drum machines pulse like a panic attack, synths wobble like too many gins, and then the chorus explodes in a ragged exhale. It’s wet, weird and wonderfully wrong in all the right ways. The video, self-directed and gloriously unhinged, sees the band freewheeling through a single-shot fever dream — a perfect match for a track that’s barely holding it together, and absolutely loving it.
If debut Wet Leg was all about bonking on the chaise longue, this is the sound of flipping it over and setting it on fire. Long live the chaos.
Catch them live at Chalk, Brighton on 21 July, or on literally every stage in the world this summer. Pack snacks.
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