Wet Leg’s feisty return with “catch these fists”
Picture this: you are in the garage of your best friend’s house with the garage door up all the way, and then you suddenly remember mid afternoon as the sun is shining that the new Wet Leg single just came out. “Hey Google, play ‘catch these fists’ by Wet Leg.” Immediately upon your spoken verbal command the song starts coming in hot. The title drops in the fourth line, and right off the bat the listener is reeled in with a threat: “Can you catch these fists?”
As the song echoes off the walls of the garage you feel yourself standing up and you start kicking your leg, left foot in front of right going back and forth like you're in the pit. The meaning to life is listening to a song for the first time in an element you are always going to remember it in. The lyrics are simple, man down / level up.
The music video also does a fantastic job at portraying what it feels like to listen to this song (running around a field with a large speaker with your arms in the air). The song provokes a strong feeling of head banging fun. And I think that is what Wet Leg does best, is let loose and have fun.
The bridge is hands down one of the most relatable and best parts of the whole song.
He don't get puss, he get the boot
I saw him sipping on dark fruit
This always happens late at night
Some guy comes up says I'm his type
I just threw up in my mouth
When he just tried to ask me out
Yeah, don't approach me
I just wanna dance with my friends
It brings in the Wet Leg classic whisper singing much like “too late now” from their first self titled album. The bass line is genuinely to fight for. There are not particularly a lot of songs out there about straight fighting, so it feels like this one brings out the aggression in you, but in a fun way. The guitar riffs both within the chorus and leading up to it are spicy and help carry the song, because you cannot mention the bass line without mentioning what’s exactly adjacent to it.The spitefulness of the song is what brings a lot of emotions out while listening through it. It almost makes me want to join a kickboxing gym and have this song be the pre game anthem.
As the song wraps up, google Spotify follows the single’s radio with “Wet Dream.” Music has the ability to feel like time travel because it felt like 2022 in the air again. “Catch these fists” would be their first original single since that album. Indie rock is back and so is the british band Wet Leg.
Fans can expect a fiery return with their sophomore album moisturizer coming to streaming and physical copies July 11.
