Massey famous Wet Denim ready to release latest single

Wet Denim has played over 30 gigs and has 100,000+ streams on Spotify. Photo / Supplied 

Wet Denim is releasing their 6th song, Remedy, next month – and the band is sitting on a vault of unreleased pieces dropping next year.  

Comprised of four Massey students or graduates, Wet Denim formed in 2021, recording songs and refining their “rock pop” sound. 

“It’s probably our most high energy, modern rock song,” said Nick Goodwin, lead singer and guitarist. 

The band had since played over 30 gigs and recently hit 100,000 streams on Spotify. 

Goodwin said Remedy is about being trapped in a toxic relationship, and that the interpretive lyrics had taken on a different meaning to him since completing the song. 

He described Wet Denim’s genre as “rock instrumental for sure” but with a “modern spin on the production”. 

“I'm also quite drawn to writing pop melodies, so the context of having a pop vocal over a rock track - it’s definitely not pop music but it's definitely not, like, alternative rock.” 

Goodwin said the lyrical content changes quite often but is usually about a realisation or new perspective he has discovered, 

Massey graduate Luca Crampton, guitarist and producer, said the band members all “draw from different corners and bring that together to make the sound we have”. 

Crampton cited Kings of Leon as a shared influence, and said their different styles form a unique sound. 

“I quite like to lean into more ambient, shoe-gazey stuff that can fill out the sides.” 

Joe Ledword on bass also produces for Wet Denim, often bringing projects into the studio which form the bones for their next hit. 

Ledword, with his brother Jack on drums, always wanted to form a band and said one of his favourite gigs so far was at a Hawke’s Bay festival, Outfield, in February. 

The band described their gigs as high, feel-good energy events where everyone can have a good time. 

Their first headline gig this year at Meow a few months ago sold 280 tickets, a surreal feeling for lead singer Goodwin. 

“Suddenly we were playing to this crowd that had paid money to see us, we weren’t opening for someone … It was so buzzy, I would say that was my favourite show that we’ve done,” said Goodwin. 

Wet Denim has fully committed to turning their dream into a full-time occupation and plans to spend time in Sydney next year to “really give it a nudge”. 

Goodwin said some genres are prone to intense, quick growth but they will need to “cultivate and grow an audience and a fan base”. 

“If we can be doing what we love doing, making music together and performing it to a crowd, without having to work another job - that would be making it for me.” 

You can stream Wet Denim on Spotify and keep up to date with any gigs on their Instagram.