Wet Leg fans have been waiting for new music from the British band since the group released its self-titled debut in 2022. But that wait is over; Wet Leg has announced they've got a new full-length coming titled moisturizer, and have shared its first single, "Catch These Fists." It's a wildly infectious burst of guitar rock crackling with all the playful swagger and frenetic energy fans have long loved about the band.
You'll hear that on this week's episode, plus a previously unreleased (but still quite famous) Sufjan Stevens song he originally recorded for his 2015 album, Carrie & Lowell. We've also got a breathtakingly beautiful track from harpist Ashley Jackson, pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu's wildly inventive take on a theme by Radiohead, and a song that NPR's Tom Huizenga says is "better than Xanax."
But first, we open the show with a quick followup to last week's conversation about changes coming to the South by Southwest Music festival.
Featured artists and songs:
1. Wet Leg: "Catch These Fists," from moisturizer
2. Ashley Jackson: "Unrest," from Take Me To The Water
3. Sufjan Stevens: "Mystery of Love (Demo)," from Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)
4. Alexander Knaifel: "Stanza I-VII," from Chapter Eight
5. George Xiaoyuan Fu: "Passacaglia on a Theme by Radiohead," from Colouring Book
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