Added to BabyStew Radio: Let’s Wrestle, “I Won’t Lie To You”
One of the bands I saw (and heard) for the first time down at SXSW was London’s Let’s Wrestle.
I’d seen them mentioned on The Battering Room’s list of bands to see at SXSW, but knew absolutely nothing else about them. However, since I tend to like many of the bands that Chris recommends,
I decided to check them out last Thursday night at the Wave Rooftop.
Needless to say, I now have a new band to obsess over. I still don’t know a whole lot about them, other than that they’re all in their late teens, and are on London’s Stolen Recordings label along with the excellent Pete & The Pirates. Their music is a bit all over the map, sounding at times like vintage Guided By Voices (“I’m OK, You’re OK”), and at other times like a more tuneful Art Brut (“Let’s Wrestle”), but everything I’ve heard is catchy as hell and infused with a level of youthful enthusiasm that you don’t hear from enough bands.
Check out a couple of tracks (one audio, one video) below, and if you like what you hear, you can download a bunch of their stuff over at eMusic. The band’s full-length U.S. debut is due later this year.
Let’s Wrestle, “I Won’t Lie To You”
This Let’s Wrestle song is really good, but just to clarify: you liked Pete & The Pirates???? Only heard, didn’t see, them at the Other Music thing, but did not like at all. One song sounded exactly like Interpol, another exactly like the Strokes, another exactly like Vampire Weekend, etc.
I do like the Pete & The Pirates stuff that I’ve heard. Don’t have the album, but WOXY has been playing a couple of good tracks from them, and I liked the couple of songs that I caught them do at Emo’s Annex on Friday.
In fact, now that you remind me, I’m gonna go download their album from eMusic. Will tell you how it is.