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Let's Wrestle

In the Court of the Wrestling Let's

Release Date:
March 23, 2010

Let’s Wrestle met years ago and bonded over meat and records. After a while, a band was formed and soon the world shall be conquered. Let’s Wrestle 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.

Let’s Wrestle tend to write about strange subjects. In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s includes songs about:
• a faceless woman inside your head that you are in love with
• getting a job so you can buy girls drinks at clubs
• how bass player Mike Lightning’s hair looks like Princess Diana’s from the point of view of a homosexual man who is in love with the dead princess
• a really famous crack addict

The songs were written in bedrooms and arranged at soundchecks over a period of two years. Originally intended as a punk record, In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s 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. Upon being signed to Merge, singer and guitarist Wesley Patrick Gonzalez exclaimed, “The future looks pretty Mergetastic and Wrestlerific!” We think you’ll agree!

Let’s Wrestle is Wesley Patrick Gonzalez (vocals and guitar), Mike Lightning (bass and vocals), and Darkus Bishop (drums).