100%WET - 100%WET - Crunchy Frog

Following a string of singles including “Ether”, “Over Me”, and the recent “Leave It”, the record delivers on early praise from DIY, The Line of Best Fit and Electronic Sound, sharing a world where shoegaze introspection collides with rave euphoria, fractured rhythms and the hyper-referential beauty of the Internet age.

100%WET is made up of producer/guitarists Casper Munns and Jakob Birch. Formed in 2023, bonding at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen over a shared desire to merge breakbeat, acid house and drum’n’bass with dense, guitar-driven songwriting. Their debut album reflects that vision fully: maximalist, emotionally charged, and sonically restless.

100%WET moves between vulnerability and intensity, fusing ambient textures, mangled samples, shifting tempos and dreamlike hooks into a dense, immersive whole. Vocal features from a wide cast of collaborators, including Eir (Sanna Heinstedt, who also joins the band live), Polly (Amalie Hannibal Petri) and Frederik Fog Bruun of the band Miaw, adding warmth and intimacy to the duo’s wired, unpredictable sound.

Drum’n’gaze duo 100%WET will release their eponymous debut album on Crunchy Frog (The Entrepreneurs, Junior Senior, Ki!) on Friday 16 May 2025. Blurring the boundaries between rock, electronica, and breakbeat-driven club music, the album is a genre-blend of shoegaze’s vast soundscapes, the kinetic energy of drum’n’bass and the hard-hitting detail of hyperpop. With baggy breakbeats, acid basslines and soaring shoegaze guitars, 100%WET reboot the harddrive of indie rock programming. “When we met, we both needed to approach music-making from a fresh perspective. We’d been exploring electronic production styles, and this album became our mutual attempt to create drum’n’gaze - a term Casper had coined to describe the missing fusion of shoegaze and drum and bass.” say Casper Munns and Jakob Birch, the two composers/producers behind 100%WET.

It’s an album of contrasts on which the band has worked with negative space in a loud-quiet-loud sense, mirrored thematically and emotionally - melancholy wrapped in euphoria, introspection communicated as explosion. On hypergaze single Ether, they describe the juxtaposed feelings of an altered state of mind - the perception of momentary bliss; the dissociate remove; golden euphoria tinged with an absolute monochromatic melancholy. Elsewhere, on Over Me, the duo mix a deep longing for life itself with utter heartbreak, sounding like soaring above the clouds, anchored by a roar of a chorus and deep subs.

Whether on ballads or bangers, so to speak, the album is cohesive but utterly fresh-sounding, and no description will really live up to the statement it makes for itself: