Wet Leg announce new album ‘Moisturizer’ with thunderous single ‘Catch These Fists’

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Wet Leg have announced full details of their new album ‘Moisturizer’ and shared comeback single ‘Catch These Fists’.The Isle Of Wight band will release the follow-up to their 2022 self-titled debut album on July 11 on various formats including a limited edition 3D gatefold cream coloured vinyl with a signed photo, picture disc vinyl, standard vinyl, cassette, CD and digitally.

You can pre-order/pre-save the record here.They have also shared the first taster from the album, ‘Catch These Fists’, a frenetic, catchy track which focuses on an “interaction with a belligerent man”.

You can listen to it below.The video, which you can view below, was directed by the band and shot on the Isle Of Wight. It has nods to “Amercian director Ti West, Cameron Crowe and their own ‘Wet Dream’ video and is a suitably off-kilter introduction to moisturizer valley,” according to a press release.The album saw the band decamp to Southwold to write and record their LP with producer with Dan Carey, who worked on their debut. “We were just kind of having fun and exploring,” said Hester Chambers before Rhian Teasedale added: “We focused on: ‘Is this going to be fun to play live?’ It was very natural that we would write the second record together.”According to a press release ‘Moisturizer’, which sees all five members contributing to the album, is “fun and freaky and fabulous” and “it is an album of manic love songs and well-timed kiss-offs, delivered by a clan of the UK’s most beloved oddballs.”It also “contains love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious.”You can view the full tracklisting for ‘Moisturizer’ below:1. ‘CPR’2. ‘liquidize’3. ‘catch these fists’4. ‘davina mccall’5..