“Too Late Now” by Wet Leg

"Too Late Now" is the slow fuse on Wet Leg's self-titled debut, written by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers with bassist Michael Champion and produced, like most of the album, by Dan Carey. It went out on Domino as the third single from the record, paired with "Oh No" as a double A-side.

The song is a bait-and-switch. It opens on a post-punk riff that refuses to catch, just guitar and bass and a plain kick drum, until Henry Holmes flips to a busier pattern right before the first verse and the whole thing starts to climb. There's reverb piled onto the chorus and delay on the snare, Teasdale sings lead with Chambers alongside, and by the end it has built to a real payoff; Stereogum's Chris DeVille called it a slow-building powerhouse. A Soulwax remix later earned a Grammy nomination for Best Remixed Recording.

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