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10.0
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10.0 |
Dork
Believe the hype – Wet Leg really are everything we said they were
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10.0
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10.0 |
NME
An instant classic debut that justifies the hype
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10.0
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10.0 |
DIY
Packed with righteous middle fingers and playful bon mots
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10.0
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10.0 |
Albumism
There’s rarely an instance where they do the done thing, or conform to the expected, and it allows for a rich landscape of emotion
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10.0
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musicOMH
This debut could have been a niche critical favourite. Instead, every preconception has been firmly smashed, and they are on track to become the biggest band in the country
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10.0
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A.V. Club
This is the rare long-awaited debut album that lives up to the hype
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9.0
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9.0 |
Under The Radar
Long may they continue to irk the purists and cause the myopic “authenticity police” to shake their fists at clouds in a state of puce faced apoplexy whilst the rest of us simply enjoy the ride
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9.0
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9.0 |
Clash
Yes, their rise has been sudden, but some groups really are that good. Put aside your cynicism, and dial into the fireworks: ‘Wet Leg’ is an exceptional debut album
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9.0
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Loud And Quiet
The duo don’t ignore the messiness or confusion of being a young adult but on their debut they distil the emotions into two-minute songs that are communal acts of joy
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8.5
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8.5 |
The Quietus
The secret to Wet Leg’s overnight rise is ultimately that they're simply tremendous fun to be around
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8.0
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Crack
Armed with crunchy guitars and melodiously deadpan vocals, Wet Leg speaks to a distinctly British tendency to make running jokes out of uncomfortable situations and to intensely long for something you can’t quite put your finger on
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8.0
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8.0 |
God Is In The TV
It works on so many levels, but most crucially, there’s great pop songs a-plenty which grow on the repeated playing that the album stands up to
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8.0
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All Music
While Chambers and Teasdale are still discovering what they can do, they're having a lot of fun finding out, and Wet Leg more than delivers on the promise of their viral beginnings
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8.0
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PopMatters
This is a record for road trips, make out sessions, and dance parties. But it’s a little hard to pin down what sets it apart from other recent pulpy, female-fronted indie pop acts with a nineties vibe
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
The UK duo revel in a Pavement-style guitar slack that goes perfectly with the rollercoaster emotional tension in their songs
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8.0
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Beats Per Minute
In many ways, it’s Wet Leg’s small imperfections that make it the perfect debut – an impressive, tantalising exploration of their core talents that leaves just enough room for improvement
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Wet Leg is irresistible post-punk revival for the internet age that helped propel the band to instant fame
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
On their long-awaited debut album, Wet Leg perfectly capture the difficult feeling of drifting through life in early adulthood
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
The sound of a plan coming together - the novelty wearing off, but a different light switching on, all day long and beyond. Print edition only
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8.0
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Uncut
Brisk and adrenalised, Wet Leg leaves little room to get bored, and is impressively low on filler for a debut. Even the sketchy minor tracks earn their place here. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
Record Collector
Like Yard Act’s The Overload, Wet Leg’s debut album is simultaneously of its time, ahead of its time, and evokes past times
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8.0
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Paste Magazine
Duo’s first album is bawdy, smart and highly entertaining
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8.0
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The Irish Times
As debut albums go, you can safely deem this a triumph
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8.0
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The Independent
On Wet Leg, existential ennui never sounded so fun
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8.0
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The Guardian
With millennial angst and humour to spare, the duo’s quarter-life crisis album has a much broader remit than their repetitive breakout single
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8.0
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Evening Standard
A surreal, silly, super fun success
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8.0
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Vinyl Chapters
This is RiotGrrrl for the 21st century and a representation of the Loud Women movement. Not since the debut of the Arctic Monkeys has indie rock sounded so raw and honest
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7.2
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Pitchfork
The British indie rock duo have hooks stuffed with bait and a keen eye for assessing self-delusion. Their debut is the sound of two women stoking mutiny from a slow descent into madness
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7.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Wet Leg carefully balance wit and indifference amidst post-punk guitar on their debut
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7.0
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The Music
A band who appear to be writing and arranging well beyond their years
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7.0
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Gigwise
The debut from the Isle of Wight duo turns them from the band everyone loves to hate to one they’ll hate to love
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6.7
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6.7 |
Northern Transmissions
For now, Wet Leg are a decent-enough band with a decent-enough debut, but there’s not much particularly exciting about them. Hopefully, with their next album, there’ll be more to say about their music
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Arts Desk
This exciting new noise doesn’t sound particularly new nor especially exciting
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6.0
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The Observer
The ribald charms of the Isle of Wight duo’s first two singles have been replaced by indie rock about rubbish exes on their surprisingly conventional debut
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6.0
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6.0 |
The FT
The album is best experienced as a decent set of stories about twenty-something slackers trying to get their buzz back, not the triumphant coronation of the world’s buzziest band
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