{"title":"Let's Wrestle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLet’s Wrestle\u003c\/strong\u003e hail from London, England. Led by lead singer and songwriter Wesley Patrick Gonzalez, they have influences as vast as Black Flag, Buddy Holly, Faust, and Edith Piaf but are ultimately trying to be as raw as possible. They try to write songs that make your soul crumble as well as make you smile, sing along, and clap your hands.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"let-s-wrestle-in-the-court-of-the-wrestling-let-s","title":"Let's Wrestle - In the Court of the Wrestling Let's","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLet's Wrestle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e met years ago and bonded over meat and records. After a while, a band was formed, and soon the world shall be conquered.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLet's Wrestle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e have influences as vast as Black Flag, Faust, and Edith Piaf but are ultimately trying to be as raw as possible. They aim to write songs that make your soul crumble as well as make you smile, sing along, and clap your hands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe songs were written in bedrooms and arranged at soundchecks over a period of two years. Originally intended as a punk record, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Court of the Wrestling Let's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e developed into more than that, with songs influenced by rock-and-roll ballads by Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly ('In Dreams,' 'My Schedule') and the psychedelic rock of Barrett-era Pink Floyd ('In the Court of the Wrestling Let's'), but overall it still remains a punk rock record.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUpon being signed to Merge, singer and guitarist Wesley Patrick Gonzalez exclaimed, 'The future looks pretty Mergetastic and Wrestlerific!' 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With themes that include being trapped in the suburbs and dancing boys on drugs, the band show that their view of the world is the same, they’ve just put on some darker sunglasses. \u003c\/span\u003eLet’s Wrestle\u003cspan\u003e may have lost some of their naivety lyrically, but it’s certainly still there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you ask singer Wesley Patrick Gonzalez what the record sounds like he’ll tell you Thin Lizzy and The Cars, which I guess to some extent is true. 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