Moist Leg drop their extremely anticipated sophomore album, moisturizer, at the moment (July 11), mere days after their lauded efficiency at Glastonbury Pageant, which noticed co-guitarist and now primary vocalist Rhian Teasdale wield a unusual acrylic B.C. Rich Mockingbird.
Within the area of some quick years, Moist Leg have change into one of many hottest indie guitar rock acts on the planet – and that is fairly an achievement, owing to the very fact Teasdale did not play guitar till the band was fashioned.
“I don’t anticipate to get to the standing of guitar hero,” Moist Leg co-founder and Teasdale’s co-guitarist Hester Chambers mirrored throughout an interview with Guitar World in 2022.
“I believe it might need come extra from the truth that we love guitar music. It positively sparked one thing in us seeing bands like Large Thief, and simply listening to The Strokes and Kings Of Leon rising up. But it surely’s actually enjoyable to let go of our insecurities. We will say, ‘We’re not like these individuals, we’re not technical however we will nonetheless write songs and play gigs.’”
And whereas Chambers was an completed guitarist pre-Moist Leg, Teasdale fell into enjoying guitar due to the band.
“One thing that actually blows my thoughts is that earlier than Moist Leg, Rhian didn’t know how you can play guitar,” Chambers commented with a smile.
“She’s glorious at writing songs on a piano however had by no means executed it on a guitar. She was like, ‘I’m gonna write on guitar,’ and it simply sort of occurred. She’s received a very lovely means of enjoying and writing. She’s not restricted, not like, ‘Oh, I must be taught these chords so I could make this track.’ She simply sort of performs round.”
Quick ahead to 2025, and Teasdale is main the pack – which now consists of long-serving touring musicians Henry Holmes, Josh Mobaraki, and Ellis Durand as official members of the band – with a guitar sometimes related to metallic and worlds away from the Surf Inexperienced Jazzmaster she was related to within the band’s earlier period.
That is removed from a brand-new phenomenon, because the previous couple of years have seen many non-metal acts embrace the allure of metal guitars.