100%WET

Copenhagen's 100%WET return, sharing new single, covering Grimes' "Delete Forever" out now via Crunchy Frog Recordings.

Following the success of their debut self-titled record, 100%WET return with a new single, "Delete Forever".

Forming at Copenhagen's coveted Rhythmic Music Conservatoire, known for their growing list of alt-pop exports (Clarissa Connelly, ML Buch, Smerz and Astrid Sonne), the band was born out of a shared love of drum and bass, hyperpop and shoegaze, a desire combine them, and be able to perform them with live instruments.

The band, made up of Jakob Birch and Casper Munns released their first singles in 2024, later sharing their debut album to plaudits from KEXP, Electronic Sound, Louder Than War and beyond, since bringing their sound to SPOT festival, and even supporting Primal Scream on their last Copenhagen headline show. 

Today, they mark their return with their version of Grimes' "Delete Forever", featuring Eir (AKA Sanna), past collaborator on one of their early singles "Ether", as well as Casper's own vocals.

Speaking on their version of the songs, guitarist and producer Casper Munns said:

"Covering this song was a spontaneous gesture to Sanna, because it’s one of her favourite tracks. I guess I felt drawn to the atmosphere of the song, because of these raw emotions and feelings of hopelessness, which are carried by an almost naive harmonic progression

and uplifting melodies.

I was also experimenting with a new guitar tuning on the 12-string at the time, tuning the strings in fifths instead of octaves, which made the chords sound really massive."

100%WET believe covers should bring something new to the table, not through refinement, but through reverence: an offering to the artists who have moved them. While the song’s original inspirations take a bleak turn, shaped by Grimes’ personal losses of six friends to the growing opioid epidemic, the band’s version amplifies the track’s inner turmoil and self-undoing, pushing its emotional soundscape to the point of excess. 

"Maybe the chaotic ‘guess I fucking love it’ attitude in the lyrics is what we tried to breathe new life into through a more noisy or ‘maximalist’ production, while wanting to stay true to the beautiful melodic core of the song."

The band's sound and approach to this song remain uniquely their own. Paralleling artists in drum and bass, trip-hop, and shoegaze, they continue to spearhead their own title for their unique blending of genres as hypergaze. Following the release of their debut, self-titled album last year, the band were forced to take a break, as well as cancelling their UK appearances and halting any future writing in the wake of an illness in the band that left them hospitalised for weeks. Fighting fit through recovery, the band are back and show no signs of slowing down, with even more to pack into 2026 than ever.

Picture by Lucas Kobe