Wet
“Deadwater”
Don’t You (out this summer on Columbia)
If you read me in 2013, you’ll know how taken I was with the Brooklyn trio’s disarming self-titled debut EP. So unsurprisingly, I am delighted by the news of their impending first LP and enchanted by its lead single. “Deadwater” begins as a brutal post-mortem for a relationship that collapsed on top of its participants, leaving vocalist Kelly Zutrau to dream of a world in which she had legs long enough to carry them out of an interminable rough patch.
Ultimately, it’s more than that, though. It’s about reminding oneself that there’s always a way out of the current-less “dead” water that a slowly metastasizing relationship can leave you trapped in. Her voice never falters when she says “there are better things for me,” and based upon where Wet look to be going, you can’t help but believe her.
