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Goodbye Terrible Youth is the second album from St Louis-by-way-of-Scotland songwriter, Gary McClure. ? Performing under the name American Wrestlers, Garys second record sees him taking bedroom recordings onto a bigger stage without sacrificing the intimacy that makes them so attractive.
If his self-titled album showed Garys knack for stringing together addictive guitar lines the shimmer of shoegaze mixed with the emotional fist pump of power pop, Goodbye Terrible Youth amplifies that energy with a roadtested band. Literally breaking out of the home studio the Tascam mixer McClure had been recording on has fallen apart from overuse hes embraced a bigger sound and stage on Goodbye Terrible Youth, his rueful yet propulsive songwriting only becoming sharper.
This [Amazing Grace] is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful songs Ive heard in 2016. All swirling guitars and plinking pianos, the song builds to a real moment of triumph. I am waiting for that moment to arrive, Gary McClure sings, and then they hit you with those crunchy, soaring guitars, and you know it has USA Today
KEXP named Amazing Grace their Song Of The Day, saying When the guitar solo kicks in towards the final minute, its almost enough to make you pick up that matchbook and light the edge of that ever-expanding to do list on fire.
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