moisturizer

moisturizer varies the Wet Leg formula quite a bit and adds new layers of depth and enchantment.

moisturizer is different from the band’s debut—more pensive, more entangled, perhaps more insecure—but it is still blessedly, joyously, and essentially strange.

‘moisturizer’ is a wonderfully crafted piece of work that cements Wet Leg’s staying power, an album to soundtrack hugging loved ones and spending the day with them doing nothing at all.

Moisturizer is a strong stab at something else: permanence. [Aug 2025, p.104]

Teeming with overt-love metaphors, insatiable lust and uncaring attitudes, Wet Leg walked so Moisturizer could run, and boy, did she run.

On their second effort, they’ve evolved into a smarter, sexier and altogether stronger creature.

What Wet Leg have done instead is nudge their formula – and their image – enough to maintain people’s interest yet not enough to alienate those drawn to their innate weirdness in the first place. It was the right move

Moisturizer is more confident, and more revealing, than Wet Leg's debut. These are love songs for people who don’t want to fall in love, made by a band that sounds more comfortable in its skin than ever.

Punchier, prettier, and more playfully perverse, ‘Moisturizer’ will undoubtedly help Wet Leg retain their place as one of Britain’s most unique bands. Expectations be damned.

Whatever’s inspired them, the songs are supremely punchy, the tunes contagious: Moisturizer is a blast.

They’re much more at home letting it rip in bangers like “Jennifer’s Body,” “Liquidize,” and “Davina McCall.” The emotions on Moisturizer range from crushed-out bliss (“I’ll be your Shakira, whenever, wherever”) to break-up rage (“You are washed-up, irrelevant, and standing in my light”). But wherever Wet Leg go, they make you want to tag along.

It’s an album that balances intense aggression with sing-along melodies and introspection with detached cynicism. And those delicate balancing acts serve as a worthy step forward from Wet Leg’s excellent 2022 debut.

There’s no sniff of second album syndrome here. moisturizer oozes confidence and Wet Leg continue to play to their strengths in style.

Moisturizer is a bold, confident blast fuelled by the security and invincibility of a deep love. [Aug 2025, p.23]

Moisturizer shows, decisively, that while the metal gauntlets might be very much on, creatively, Wet leg's gloves are off. [Aug 2025, p.74]

Unburdened by fancy production, Weg Leg sounds like a real live rock band playing in a room together—a vanishingly rare phenomenon in the contemporary landscape of popular music. More extraordinary is how much fun they sound like they’re having on Moisturizer.

There’s no separating Wet Leg from the brazen humor that gave them their breakthrough. But this record is as dazzlingly earnest as it is wry, displaying the staying power of a band that will outlast a sense of novelty.

The love is undeniably deep – overflowing, perhaps – and moisturizer is a proud and expressive declaration of both a newfound queer identity and queer endearment. That it sometimes misses the mark due to its rose-tinted vision is hard to be too miffed at.

Things get rough and rocky in places. .... But the soft centres of Davina McCall and U And Me At Home keep Moisturizer a light and vivifying lotion. [Aug 2025, p.73]