ALBUM OF THE WEEK

Wet Leg

A tornado of hype swept Isle of Wight duo Wet Leg up to ‘next big thing’ territory based on the excellent singles Chaise Longue and Wet Dream.

Rhian Teasdale, 28 and Hester Chambers, 27 might have been anointed indie’s bright new hopes but occasionally they sound like Olivia Rodrigo when she goes alt-rock dropping Fbombs. Teesdale’s delivery of the lines ‘You’re so woke, Diet Coke. I feel gross, oh no’ (Oh No) actually sounds like a parody of the 19-year-old Californian. There’s little wrong with tracks such as the Blur-via-Pavement chug of Supermarket or appearing to use the Pixies’ Gigantic as a jump-off point for Piece Of S***. However, by the time you come to closer Too Late Now and its spoken line ‘I don’t need no dating app to tell me if I look like crap’ you begin to think the hype is overblown.