.Wetlegband has managed to make music a mirror of the past few years, releasing tracks that are more focused on balancing energy with apathy than catering to the ego. That's why their debut project is one of our picks for album of the year
It’s the summer of 2021. Trump isn’t president anymore, but this new guy isn’t much better. There’s still a pandemic raging, but the sun is out and people want to party. You compulsively hit your vape every five minutes chasing that first head rush. The TikTok algorithm knows more about your trauma than your therapist does. You’re absorbing enough content on your phone every minute to feel moved by absolutely none of it.
Though it seems as though they’ve never put out any other music, they’re signed to Domino Records, a powerhouse of idiosyncratic hitmakers like Pavement and Arctic Monkeys as well as cult indie acts such as Alex G and Animal Collective. “Chaise Longue” grows alongside. Some say there’s an excess of talk-singing post-punk bands. “Chaise Longue,” though, is different, not cluttered with references to time or place, yet it reaches cultural relevance.
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