Tom Dunne: Moisturizer from Wet Leg already feels like my album of the year 

Wet Leg have blown me away with their latest record, and Rhian Teasdale is quickly emerging as one of popular music's great front-women 
Tom Dunne: Moisturizer from Wet Leg already feels like my album of the year 

Rhian Teasdale of Wet Leg on stage at the TRNSMT festival in Glasgow recently. Picture: Lesley Martin/PA Wire

Urban Outfitters, Temple Bar, Dublin, sometime last week. I am in hell. Somehow tricked into accompanying my teenage daughters on a clothes shopping expedition. The music playlist is saving me: early Stones, Velvet Underground, CSNY. It is now heaven.

It reminds me of similar shops in Manhattan in the mid-1990s. The clothes were the same, vintage T-shirts and hoodies; the staff were the same, uber-cool tattooed people; and the music was the same. The only thing changing is me.

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