American Wrestlers – Goodbye Terrible Youth
Released November 4th, 2016
Goodbye Terrible Youth, hello terrible record. Okay maybe not terrible, but mired in such mediocrity it barely registers. The jangly guitar lines float by in a hazy and lazy fashion akin to a demo recording made in a teenager’s bedroom. This might well have the ability to lull listeners to sleep. Which is perhaps the most positive trait to the album. The lo-fi quality, however, isn’t what holds up the album. What holds Terrible Youth back from becoming a coherent, powerful statement is a kind of haphazardness in its arrangement and the total lack of any hooks.
2 of 5 stars
