Cannot we freeze time for a moment? Brooklyn trio Wet lends us a hand, distancing listeners from fast-pace absurdities for a brief 4:01 in “No Lie.”
In this spacey tune, the Wet-ness makes our palms sweaty and our nerves ice cold. By 2:30, the listener is transformed into a puddle of his or her own emotions. Yes, in this rare case Kelly Zutrau, Martin Sulkow, and Joe Valle have a hydrogen bond so polar covalent that they’re group name liquefies listeners.
It’s an R&B of electronic taste, opening a new door to visualization and lyrical poetry. I vision a woman sliding her fingers down a window with condensation, ironically wiping the wet away in her desperate reach for love. Yet the words go “on and on and on and on,” pounding both the point of relentless struggle and my temples.
The group released their debut EP via Neon Gold Records earlier this month, but get a taste for their style with this track. But take caution — the slow-mo head banging may or may not mess up your hair.