Let’s Wrestle won’t lie to you; will fight Hulk Hogan
No matter how many records I buy
I can’t fill this void
The mantra of the music blogger?
Let’s Wrestle are a band that have been on my radar for some time now, yet I never seemed to get the chance to write about them. In that spirit, it’s now over a year since their first proper EP, In Loving Memory Of… was released, so I’m a little behind the times. It doesn’t matter too much though as I Won’t Lie To You, as well as the record as a whole, still sounds as good now as it did then.
Let’s Wrestle is a band that seems to pride themselves on the shambolic. You get the sense with these songs that not a lot of thought went into arranging them perfectly. Whether that is the case or whether they have been designed well enough to sound that way, I don’t know. Either way, you get a sense that you are hearing the songs as they come together in the first place, not after the hundredth rehearsal.
It’s this on the fly style that carries on over to the lyrics. Wry observations are dropped in all over the place. Some make sense, others less so. The vocals come across like something you’d hear on a record by The Fall. There is a feel of Pavement here too, if not in musical style, then certainly in tone. A rough narrative is underlying it all, but one gets a sense that this is akin to indie band improv. Which is all fine with me.
In Loving Memory Of… was released last year on Stolen Recordings.
Finally i got it, thank god, and thanks to you, bastard. All my credit to this website.
Er, you’re welcome?
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