A girl band was opening the night at the Satellite on Sunday, and when you think about girl group you think pretty harmonies and sweet pop. But it was not exactly the case with the Wet and Reckless, a band from Echo Park (LA), as Jessica Gelt, the bassist, said it several times.
Emily Wilder and her strong and somewhat aggressive vocals, that she was rather shouting than singing, were the strong elements of the band, along with Jessica Gelt, who was making all kind of funny moves while playing her thumbing bass lines.
The quite violent guitar strumming was completed by some reverb from Whitney Blank’s guitar and Deanna deVries’ steady drumming. But Wilder was singing like it was some protest song of the 60s, with an in-your-face, transforming the whole thing into some pseudo-punk anthem with Beach Boys-like riffs.
Sure, there was definitively a 60s thing blurred into their songs, but, when the DJ probably intentionally played Best Coast just after their set, I thought it was not exactly that kind of sweet-fuzzy 60s: If Bethany Cosentino sings ‘I wish he was my boyfriend’, Emily Wilder exclaims without even blinking: ‘It’s gonna take a whole lot more than rollin’ around on this little floor for me to fall for you’. Tough gal.