THE STRANGLERS MEET THE B-52's IN THE WET SECRETS,
A SIX- PIECE BAND MAKING BASS-AND-HORN-HEAVY DANCE ROCK.
FIRST SINGLE, "I CAN SWING A HAMMER," ON NEW EP OUT NOW.
SHOWS ANNOUNCED:
AUSTIN, TX: SXSW, March 15-20
LOS ANGELES, CA: Hotel Café, March 25
SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Hotel Utah, March 27
Here come The Wet Secrets, a six-piece dance rock band that dresses up their scrappy, scathing outlook in impeccably tailored pop attire. Leave eyerolls and apathy to the others: The Wet Secrets’ buoyant brand of irony turns dysfunction into inspiration. Equal parts punk rock and halftime show, The Wet Secrets’ vibe is a fusion of the bass-driven grit of The Stranglers with the lurid surrealism of The B-52's.
Get to know this sharply dressed rock outfit with I Can Live Forever, a new EP that showcases their ‘frantic pop’ sound: brassy, fizzy, high-wattage energy at the edge of hysteria, deftly contained in three-minute packages.
The first single from the new EP, “I Can Swing A Hammer” is confidence-in-a- can, an epic pep talk that works on and off the field. “I Can Swing A Hammer” is also the perfect rallying cry for a shiny new year, a high gloss time of best intentions and resolve. Here’s a promise: In less than three minutes, you too will feel like you can swing a hammer with the best of them.
I Can Live Forever covers a lot of ground in only four songs. Over the squirmy intergalactic synths of “If I Was A Camera,” the Secrets shout “Take off all your clothes,” a message that’s more about watching than doing, with a sweet geeky voyeurism. “Final Curtain for a Drama Queen” is a madcap staccato sendoff, a paranoid’s sweaty, horn-heavy fever dream. Final track “Quelle Surprise” is as close to a ballad as The Wet Secrets get, with a slinky 70s vibe, faraway vocals and tinkling off-kilter scales.
I CAN LIVE FOREVER TRACK LISTING + LYRIC VIDEOS
1. I Can Swing A Hammer
2. If I Was A Camera
3. Final Curtain for a Drama Queen
4. Quelle Surprise
WHO ARE THE WET SECRETS?
Principal vocalist/songwriter Lyle Bell (also of Shout Out Out Out Out) lays swampy basslines through songs that balance misanthropy with empathy, caustic barbs with uplifting mantras. Cravat-wrapped drummer Trevor Anderson (also an award-winning filmmaker whose work has shown at Sundance, SXSW, Berlin and more) embodies the band’s high-art non-conformism. Kim Rackel and Emma Frazier contribute towering, dancing hornstacks on trumpet and trombone, with wildmen Paul Arnusch and Christan Maslyk rounding out the furry-hatted fray on keys, timbales, congas, sax. All six Secrets sing along, creating vocal harmonies galore.
For more information, please contact:
Emily Smart
Six Shooter Records
emilysmart@sixshooterrecords.com
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