Wet (band)

Wet
Origin Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Genres
Years active 2012–present
Labels Columbia[5]
Website wet.band
Members
  • Kelly Zutrau
  • Joe Valle
  • Marty Sulkow

Wet is an American indie pop group from Brooklyn, New York, consisting of Kelly Zutrau, Joe Valle, and Marty Sulkow.[6] They have released both an EP and a studio album, and are currently signed to Columbia Records. Wet was called the most promising group in music by The Fader in 2015.[7]

History

Wet is made up of members Kelly Zutrau, Joe Valle, and Marty Sulkow. The three met in New York through mutual friends while Sulkow and Valle were attending New York University and Zutrau was a student at Cooper Union.[8] Sulkow and Zutrau formed a band called Beauty Feast in 2007.[7] It grew to seven members but eventually dissolved.[7]

Zutrau went on to the Rhode Island School of Design but continued to write music.[7] Sulkow and Valle became involved with her work and in 2012 the group moved in together in Sulkow's apartment in Bedford–Stuyvesant.[7] The group began booking gigs around Brooklyn and posting music online, gaining attention around 2013. Wet signed with the boutique record label Neon Gold in 2013, releasing its self-titled EP later that same year.[7]

Neon Gold had a partnership with Columbia Records at the time Wet signed with them.[7] The label switched its partnership to Atlantic Records in 2014 and Wet subsequently signed with Columbia after fielding offers from numerous major labels.[7] The group moved to Western Massachusetts in 2014 where they began working on their debut album under Columbia.[7]

Discography

Studio albums

Title Details Peaks
US
[9]
AUS
[10]
CAN
[11]
UK
[12]
Don't You 76 77 55 184

Extended plays

Title Details
Wet

References

  1. Monger, Timothy. "Wet | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved July 23, 2016. Soulful electronic indie trio Wet ... into their minimalist, electronic indie pop.
  2. Lipshutz, Jason (February 21, 2014). "Scouting Report: Alt-R&B Trio Wet". Billboard. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  3. McCown-Levy, Alex (January 29, 2016). "Wet soaks its debut album with a deluge of homogenous effects". The A.V. Club. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  4. Partridge, Kenneth (February 10, 2016). "Synth-Poppers Wet's Debut 'Don't You' Is Lovely – But Forgettable: Album Review". Billboard. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  5. Frere-Jones, Sasha (October 31, 2015). "Wet ends a brief tour at the Fonda, and begins a much bigger story". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  6. Lanham, Tom (February 25, 2015). "Kelly Zutrau of Wet paints a song". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Cooper, Duncan (March 4, 2015). "Wet Has What It Takes To Make Everyone Care About An Indie Band". The Fader. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  8. Lipshutz, Jason (February 13, 2014). "Wet: Why You Need to Know This Brooklyn Trio". Billboard. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  9. "Wet – Chart history: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
  10. "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing ~ 8 February 2016" (PDF) (1354). Pandora Archive. February 8, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  11. "Wet – Chart history: Canadian Albums". Billboard. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  12. "CHART: CLUK Update 6.02.2016 (wk5)". Zobbel.de. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  13. "Wet EP". Neon Gold Shop. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
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