Legss - Unreal (2025)

Pivoting around a relentless industrial stomp, ‘909’ is perhaps the most neurotic song about talk-radio ever committed to wax. Ned Green’s first-person character observation slowly descends into madness - the unsettling closing refrain: ‘it’s your views, it’s your calls’ - is indicative of the quartet’s penchant for finding melodrama in the banal. Talking on the single, the band say:

“909 has existed in various forms for a few years now. There’s a 10-minute disco version somewhere. It’s a song that has developed with us and been rewritten at every stage, and now it’s in its final form: a stark, cubist, bass driven day in the life of a nine-to-fiver addicted to radio podcasts.”

Whilst remaining leftfield in spirit, there is a musical vulnerability to the latest iteration of Legss, and a newfound pop sensibility to their writing, which reflects a move to a more accessible sound. There is a security in inaccessibility, and shedding this cloak opens the band up to an earnestness at once exciting and nerve-wracking. Twinned with their signature world-building aesthetic, the new direction is reflected sonically by drummer Louis Grace, who co-produced the album with Balazs Altsach (Ugly, Katy J Pearson, Broadside Hacks)

On the announcement of their debut album, Unreal, the band say:

“Unreal feels like the work of a lifetime. We can’t believe we’re still here to see it through, but we are and we couldn’t be prouder. The album is about miscommunication and feelings of unreality/the uncanny in everyday life; the tragic and the comic.”