Overview

• Moisturizer was released July 11 via Domino to strong critical acclaim, marking a confident follow-up to Wet Leg’s Grammy-winning 2022 debut.
• The band previewed four new songs—“CPR,” “Mangetout,” “Davina McCall,” and “11:21”—on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert earlier this month.
• The lyrics shift from barbed put-downs to explorations of blossoming relationships and fluid sexuality.
• Sonically Moisturizer draws on early ’90s US alt-rock and Britpop influences, with angular riffs and raging guitars invoking Pixies, Belly, the Breeders and Elastica.
• The group has grown from its original duo to a five-piece with guitarist Josh Mobaraki, bassist Ellis Durand and drummer Henry Holmes; they will begin their North American tour Sept. 1 in Seattle.