For Moist Leg, artifice and the unknown encourage their authenticity—although watching horror movies collectively in between collaborative writing classes didn’t harm, both. Behind the uncanny, creepy, Cronenberg-esque visuals, nonetheless, is a file that feels open-hearted and weak. The band’s love songs are freaky and full-bodied, blissful and bedlam, gross and engrossing. “Jennifer’s Physique” is a track about obsessive, all-consuming love—the Megan Fox-starring movie’s queer subtext now looms bigger for Teasdale. The aching “Davina McCall”—named after the British TV presenter and pop-culture treasure—is concerning the stunning banality of relationships. (McCall, for the file, is a licensed Moist Lag fan, and was delighted to be namechecked.) “Pillow Discuss” could be very, very sexy, and “Liquidize” will get gooey a few lover with extra confronting, wacky lyricism. “So many creatures within the fucking world, how may I be your one? Be your marshmallow worm?” Teasdale sings, her vocals oscillating from nearly baritone booms to a sinewy falsetto and a vicious spitfire.
Whereas Teasdale has been invigorated by discovering her queerness in tandem with the file, Chambers writes her personal love songs about fellow bandmate and companion Mobaraki—one is from his perspective, addressed to her.
I catch Teasdale within the days after Glastonbury; she managed to remain for just a few days and catch buddies and friends like Katy J. Pearson play. “We barely ever actually get to remain at festivals anymore, and we’ve obtained 4 this week,” she says. “You overlook what it’s wish to be within the crowd. I feel it’s actually necessary to go and get caught in.”
Touring once more has “breathed recent air into the primary album,” she provides. “And persons are already so supportive of the brand new stuff—I like seeing them already realizing the lyrics, or folks that don’t simply, like, making the vowel sounds to sing together with us.”
Teasdale is making an attempt to take inventory the place she will. “The primary file was such a shock. And that is…our first time making a second file,” she says with amusing. “I stored pondering, Has our luck run out? Will individuals nonetheless care? We constructed up a lot from the primary album, it’s been nerve-racking. However I’ve felt the love.”
Beneath, Rhian Teasdale chats Moisturizer, making love songs, and pissing off males.
