

In July 2023, Douglas Richards used an article in The Sunday Times to make assertions about Teasdale's personal life and Wet Leg. Personal life Douglas Richards allegations She also noted she was inspired by "the attitude of people that have just picked up an instrument, used their ears and made something that sounds good to them". In a December 2016 interview, Teasdale noted that she had an eclectic taste in music as a teenager, listening to various artists, including A Tribe Called Quest, Arcade Fire, The Bees, Devendra Banhart, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, and Scout Niblett. Teasdale's voice has been compared to Kate Bush, Bjork, and Joanna Newsom. In June 2022, the band asserted that they had completed their second album. "Chaise Longue" and "Wet Dream" would both additionally peak at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart the same day, "Chaise Longue", "Wet Dream", "Angelica", and "Ur Mum" entered the UK Independent Singles Chart, peaking at No. Their debut album was released on 8 April 2023, and contained "Chaise Longue", "Angelica", and the ten tracks they had recorded with Carey in April 2021, all of which were written or co-written by Teasdale. They released a further single on 28 February 2022, "Angelica", which was produced by Josh Mobaraki, and then a further single on 4 April 2023, " Ur Mum", which features an 11.02 second scream, inspired by Teasdale's experiences of living above a London branch of the Psychedelic Society that ran scream therapy sessions at 7pm on Tuesdays. On 29 November 2021, the pair released the double-A side single " Too Late Now"/"Oh No", and announced their debut album, Wet Leg. "Wet Dream" was written about an irritating ex-boyfriend who continued to love bomb Teasdale despite her breaking up with him.

On 28 September 2021, they released " Wet Dream", by which time "Chaise Longue" had been streamed three million times and its video viewed over a million times. They recorded ten songs in April 2021 produced by Dan Carey, and in June 2021, the band signed to Domino Recording Company and released " Chaise Longue", which was produced by Jon McMullen, written during Christmas 2019 five weeks into Teasdale staying at Chambers' and her boyfriend's house, and for which a video was also released. They named the band after closing their eyes, shuffling through emoji combinations, and coming across one that happened to be a local term for an overner. On 2 September 2018, Teasdale and Hester, having contributed guitar and piano to each other's works, were sitting on a Ferris wheel at that year's End of the Road Festival, when they decided to form Wet Leg together. She then released "Time Traveller", a song about her grandfather, which she had previously performed for Burberry Acoustic in February 2017. She released the single "Solid Gold" in 2018, which she had developed with Plastic Mermaids, a band fronted by Douglas Richards and containing his brother Jamie Richards. In 2016, she released a single, "Humdrum Drivel", which NME described as "every inch charming", followed by another single, "Pavlova", which The Independent described as "stripped-back" and "featur unmistakable vocals fit with haunting piano accompaniment". Īround age 16, Teasdale met Aled Chivers, the future founder of Chiverin, who later drew her to Bristol and signed her as Rhain. Teasdale dropped out of her A-levels to undertake a music Btec at Platform One music college on the Isle of Wight, at which she met future-bandmate Hester Chambers, with whom she bonded over a shared love of Laura Marling, Patrick Watson, and Nordic music. After early reviews misidentified her as being from Iceland, she used a December 2016 interview to joke that this was due to the presence of "a secret tunnel that runs right through from Reykjavik to Sandown, entrance where Woolworths used to be". Her parents were both in the merchant navy. Rhian Louise Teasdale was born in Formby but moved to the Isle of Wight when she was eight. She was associated with the music scene in Bristol. While best known for being one of the members of Wet Leg, she released several songs before that under the name Rhain.

Rhian Louise Teasdale is a musician from Formby, England.
