STACK #249 July 2025

MUSIC FEATURE

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After their acclaimed debut,Wet Leg return with album number two. It’s “fun and freaky and fabulous”. SECOND LEG

Wet Leg: Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers

W et Leg teased their new album on Instagram with a simple message: “ We’re so back .” The group – led by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – have done a lot of living since their chart-topping 2022 debut. “I thought I was straight all of my life until I met my current partner,” Teasdale reveals. “These love songs are about them. I just found it so much more interesting and empowering to be writing love songs where I’m not lusting over a man. It feels a little bit different.” The group made the album as a band, living together in

CHART FACT

Wet Leg’s self titled debut album hit number one in Australia in April 2022.

Southwold, a coastal town in Suffolk. “We were just kind of having fun and exploring,” Chambers says. “We focused on: Is this going to be fun to play live?” Teasdale adds. The band says the album contains “love songs of every stripe – stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious”. Jeff Jenkins

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THE WIGHT STUFF Wet Leg hail from the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England, which is home to the Isle of Wight Festival. Until Wet Leg came along, the most famous Isle of Wight musical export was ’80s band Level 42.

Moisturizer by Wet Leg is out Jul 11 via Universal

Wet Leg’s debut won Best Alternative Music Album at the 2023 Grammys, beating Arcade Fire, Big Thief, Björk and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And their debut single, Chaise Longue , won Best Alternative Music Performance.

GRAMMY WATCH

A KNOCKOUT

The American metal band celebrate their 20th anniversary with a killer comp.

A fter 20 years of beers, cheers and tears, Five Finger Death Punch are looking back with a cracking new compilation, so we also thought it was time to reflect. Here are the five things you need to know about Five Finger Death Punch: The name is a tribute to classic martial arts movies, which the band loves. They were also inspired by the “five-point

destroyed everything I worked so hard to build. At the peak of my alcohol addiction, my bandmates damn near didn’t talk to me.” Moody has been sober since 2018. 5FDP have had four Top 10 albums in Australia, led by F8 , which hit number two in 2020. The new compilation contains re-recorded and reimagined versions of cuts from the band’s catalogue.

20 Years of Five Finger Death Punch – Best of Volume 1 by Five Finger Death Punch is out Jul 18 via MGM

palm exploding heart technique” in Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 2 but felt that was a little too long for a band name. The band started in Los Angeles in 2005 before moving to Las Vegas. They had to cancel an Australian tour with Black Sabbath in 2016 when singer Ivan Moody checked himself into rehab. “Alcohol turned me into the worst possible version of myself,” Moody says. “It nearly

It’s their Taylor Swift move. They explain it was “in response to the recent sale of our original master recordings by our former label, an action without our knowledge or the opportunity to reclaim our work. The idea of remixes or remastered editions wasn’t enough, so we completely re-recorded our songs to honour the fans who have made them matter by being with Five Finger Death Punch every step of the way.” Jeff Jenkins

Five Finger Death Punch (L to R) Chris Kael, Charlie Engen, Ivan L. Moody, Zoltan Bathory and Andy James

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