Rapid Fire Reviews: Eternally Indie Rocking
I am behind, big time. So it's time to hit the ground running and review as many notable releases from this year as quickly as I can before the halfway point of the year. Wish me luck <3. Wet Leg - Wet Leg Wet Leg are the hot new band in indie rock coming off a 2021 that saw their first two singles Chaise Lounge and Wet Dream both become major indie darlings and fir Chaise arguably even a hit song. I was quite as crazy about some of the bands earlier songs as other people were but if there's one thing you can't deny it's how funny they are. The girls clearly write with a brash but still incredibly witty style that gives their songs a ton of personality that their contemporaries don't have. Occasionally they can back these diversions up with some serious muscle on the instrumental side of things too. Unfortunately one of my observations on the singles that translated onto the record is that some of that intensity is clearly making up for simplicity. The record...