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Wet Leg was recorded and produced in the main by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey (“Chaise Longue” and “Angelica” were produced by Jon McMullen and Josh Mobaraki respectively). The album was mostly recorded in London, in April 2021, meaning they had a finished album before the world had even heard debut single “Chaise Longue” or played live. "I guess how it happened was unconventional," admits Hester. When you sign-in to Your Chosen Music Service account via the Applications, your account credentials are respectively processed by Spotify or Apple Music and not shared with Domino. Spotify users: The new release outsold the rest of the Top 5 combined, earning them the second-biggest opening week for any chart-topping album in 2022 at the time. After narrowly missing out on a prestigious Mercury Music Prize, the band have also been for five Grammy Awards and they will find out if they have won in a matter of weeks.Of course, the amount of press that Teasdale and Chambers have attracted since their breakthrough has made some question the validity of their innocuous rise. But these criticisms tend to miss the point about Wet Leg in the first place - that the duo's creations were and still are made for their own amusement, and no-one else's.

And now the ripple that Chaise Longue started has grown into a fast-approaching tsunami; Wet Leg's eponymous debut album is on its way to top the Official Albums Chart in its first week.

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