If you’ve been within the business lengthy sufficient, indifference—true indifference, the place you don’t really care what listeners consider you, about profiting out of your music, or the trail to main label success—turns into liberating. And who doesn’t wish to really feel the overwhelming weight of expectations lifted? No surprise a busybody like Dave Grohl as soon as crashed Moist Leg’s set. From their debut song-turned-viral hit onwards, the British indie rock band bottled up snark as freedom and laced it with art-punk hooks, and stressed-out listeners have been shopping for en masse. Reacting to life’s blows is regular: breakups, losses, firings. Dwelling on it, nonetheless, is to willingly relinquish your happiness. Singer-guitarists Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers know the key to having enjoyable once more is all within the shoulder shrugs.
Coming back from a fruitful glow-up the place their pockets buckled with gold trophies, Moist Leg slide again into loose-lipped dance-punk with “catch these fists,” their first new music since their 2022 self-titled album. Chunky and cheeky, the music rides a thick, chugging bass line and taut guitar riff whereas Teasdale rebukes late-night pickup artists, whisper-singing so softly you could hear her throat croak on the finish of sure phrases. “How are you going to catch a drugs ball? Are you able to catch your self while you fall?” she asks with feigned curiosity whereas curling her fingers right into a fist behind her again. Moist Leg sound spiteful this go-around, however the way in which Teasdale revels within the extended gaps between her deadpanned lyrics suggests it’s all only a joke—or is it?