NEW SINGLE : WET LEG are so back! Isle Of Wight band announce new album ‘moisturizer,’ new single ‘catch these fists,’ May 2025 UK tour & summer festival shows

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Wet Leg are so back!

 Announce second album moisturizer will be released July 11^th

 Unveil new single “catch these fists” – watch the video here

 Touring UK in May including London’s Brixton Academy + summer 2025 festival performances at Glastonbury, Primavera, Radio 1 Big Weekend + headlining Green Man

Wet Leg – the Isle of Wight five-piece founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – have announced their eagerly anticipated second album moisturizer will be released on July 11^th.

Joined by Ellis Durand (bass), Henry Holmes (drums), and Joshua Mobaraki (guitar, synth), moisturizer is fun and freaky and fabulous, an unbridled display of the live muscle Wet Leg have built up over a few years of non-stop touring. Punchier, prettier and more perverted where it counts, moisturizer is an album of manic love songs and well-timed kiss-offs, delivered by a clan of the UK’s most beloved oddballs.

Touring all over the world, Wet Leg developed into a taut, caustic live operation that made good on their debut album’s success: No.1 chart placements at home and abroad, three Grammys, two Brits and over half a billion streams. If success presents a fork in the road for any new band – to “go pop” or keep following your muse – Wet Leg emphatically chose the latter path – including working with Dan Carey again as their producer. In March 2024, the band decamped to Southwold to write; living together, working all day, watching horror movies all night, they soon locked into a new sense of symbiosis. Subsequently, all five members of Wet Leg have writing credits on moisturizer – “We were just kind of having fun and exploring,” says Chambers. “We focussed on: Is this going to be fun to play live? It was very natural that we would write the second record together” adds Teasdale.

Alongside the album announcement, the band also share the first taste of moisturizer with its frenetic, alluringly combative lead single “catch these fists.” Kicking things off with an untameable, electrified groove from its opening seconds, “catch these fists” is dance-punk par excellence – bass notes ricocheting off a wall of howling synth, thunderous beats catching strays from Teasdale’s cruel deadpan.

The video, directed by the band and shot on the Island, nods to Ti West, Cameron Crowe and their own “Wet Dream” video and is a suitably off-kilter introduction to moisturizer valley.

As happens a couple of times on moisturizer, the major animus behind “catch these fists” was an interaction with a belligerent man, as chronicled in the song’s final verse. This is not to say sh*tc*nt men are the sole focus of moisturizer — no matter how much album track “mangetout”, with its withering chorus of “get lost forever” may feel like the Nicole Kidman divorce photo in song form. On the contrary, this largely is an album about being, as the band exclaim on “pond song”, so “DEEP! IN! LOVE!!!!” moisturizer contains love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious.

Although Teasdale previously felt allergic to writing love songs, moisturizer is defined by its sheer exuberance and Teasdale ended up finding the process empowering. That new sense of ownership extends to moisturizer’s album art, an instant-classic freak-fest in which Chambers and Teasdale bare long, ghoulish claws; Teasdale, sporting long, kitschy socks and sans eyebrows, grins fiendishly into the camera. It reflects the album, moisturizer is the band turning the dial up and delivering a record that is unapologetically bolder, stronger and raunchier.

Wet Leg – ‘moisturizer’ album tracklisting:

1. CPR
2. liquidize
3. catch these fists
4. davina mccall
5. jennifer’s body
6. mangetout
7. pond song
8. pokemon
9. pillow talk
10. don’t speak
11. 11:21
12. u and me at home

Upcoming live dates

Tue 8^th April     The River, Los Angeles

Wed 21^st May   O2 Academy, Birmingham

Fri 23^rd May      O2 Academy Brixton, London

Tue 27^th May     Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Wed 28^th May   O2 Academy, Leeds

Thu 29^th May    O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester

Fri 6^th June      Primavera Sound, Barcelona

Sat 14^th June    NOS Primavera Sound, Porto

Sat 21^st June    Hurricane Festival, Scheessel

Sun 22^nd June  Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck

Fri 27^th June     Glastonbury Festival, Shepton Mallet

Wed 2^nd July    Roskilde Festival, Roskilde

Fri 4^th July        Rock Werchter, Werchter

Sat 5^th July       Down the Rabbit Hole Festival, Beuningen

Sun 6^th July      Festival Beauregard, Herouville Saint-Clair

Fri 11^th July      TRNSMT, Glasgow

Tue 15^th July    I-Days Milan, Milan w/Olivia Rodrigo

Wed 16^th July   Acieloaperto Festival, Cesena

Fri 1^st Aug        All Together Now, Waterford

Sun 3^rd Aug      Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire

Thu 7^th Aug      Oya Festival, Oslo

Fri 8^th Aug        Way Out West, Gothenburg

Sun 10^th Aug    Boardmasters Festival, Newquay

Fri 15^th Aug      Green Man Festival, Crickhowell

Sun 17^th Aug    Cabaret Vert Festival, Charleville-Mézières

Tickets for the band’s May 2025 UK headline tour will be on pre-sale from Wed 9th April at 10:00am local time, general sale from Fri 11th April at 10:00am local time. Pre-order the new album for access to the first pre-sale.

moisturizer is available to pre-order on limited edition 3D gatefold cream coloured vinyl w/ signed photo, picture disc vinyl, standard vinyl, cassette, CD and digitally. Pre-order now via Wet Leg’s store | Digital

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