Let’s Wrestle premiered the video for “In Dreams Part II” from their new album Nursing Home today at Pitchfork.TV!

Watch the “In Dreams Part II” video at Pitchfork.TV now

Don’t miss Let’s Wrestle’s new comic book Home, too. Wesley Patrick Gonzalez talked to Spinner about the inspiration behind the comic book.

Nursing Home is available on CD, LP and digital download now in the Merge store. US tour dates are coming soon!

Let’s Wrestle’s new album Nursing Home will be available in stores on May 17, but you can stream the whole album now at PasteMagazine.com!

Stream Let’s Wrestle’s Nursing Home now!

Paste describes Nursing Home:

English indie rockers Let’s Wrestle straddle the lines between silly and sincere, raw and ridiculous. While their tongue-in-cheek name mirrors the band’s approach to be taken seriously, it’s only a matter of time before their addictive hooks will leave you immersed in their angst-ridden sprawl. For their second record Nursing Home, the trio of Wesley Patrick Gonzalez (vocals and guitar), Mike Lightning (bass and vocals) and Darkus Bishop (drums) traveled overseas to record with heralded producer Steve Albini in Chicago, Illinois. Out of this partnership, the group have emerged from the studio with another compelling batch of songs blending equal parts punk candor and pop sentiment into their darker portraits of suburban life.

Pre-order Nursing Home now on CD or LP now in the Merge store and receive a free button! In case you missed it, be sure to check out Wes’ charming Mother’s Day card, too!

Let’s Wrestle will release their sophomore album Nursing Home on CD, LP and digital download on May 17!

Download “Dear John” from Nursing Home now!

Nursing Home, the second album by Let’s Wrestle, was recorded in Chicago last year with Steve Albini. With themes that include being trapped in the suburbs and dancing boys on drugs, the band show that their fantastically offbeat view of the world is the same, they’ve just put on some darker sunglasses. Let’s Wrestle may have lost some of their naivety lyrically, but it’s certainly still there.

If you ask singer Wesley Patrick Gonzalez what the record sounds like he’ll tell you Thin Lizzy and The Cars, which to some extent is true. It certainly is heavier than its predecessor – a result, no doubt, of Albini’s engineering – but the band’s unerring ear for an infectious chorus and nagging melody displayed previously remains, as shown on breezy, tearaway numbers such as “If I Keep On Loving You” and “Bad Mamories”. Conversely, the quiet songs on the album are quite possibly the most poignant the band have recorded to date, as on the brokenhearted “I Am Useful,” or the strangely affecting “For My Mother,” in which Gonzalez sings, “but now she’s gone/ my mother’s sad but I’ll take care of her.”

All up, Let’s Wrestle have grown up and reckon they’re heavier and depressed but are still laughing on the inside. They are still making some of the most exciting and electrifying songs around, but with the wit and noise sharpened to a knife edge, the emotion more pronounced and heart-rending. And this collection of songs is undoubtedly their finest to date.