It’s the Year of Wet Leg, and none of us can stop it. A few weeks after releasing fresh-hell banger and unhinged SOTY contender “catch these fists,” which feels like something Elastica should have put out in the late-’90s, the Isle of Wight indie oddballs resurface this week (May 27) with a galloping love bop called “CPR.” It’s just the right amount of sleazy as it flashes some new wave vibes mixed with the band’s usual cocktail of post-punk and alt-rock, and we’ll be riding that hypnotic bass line all the way back to our broken hearts until Wet Leg deliver white-hot sophomore album moisturizer on July 11 via Domino. It’ll be a rare highlight of what’s expected to be a fairly shit summer. But perhaps we can love again? Bless you, Wet Leg. Two months after the album drop, if we make it out of the sweaty season alive, the band rolls into Roadrunner in Brighton on September 14, as part of their stylization-is-everything moisTOURizer tour of North America. Allow our feelings on romance to be resuscitated with the spiky “CPR” below.
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