Goodbye Terrible Youth

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Goodbye Terrible Youth
Goodbyeterribleyouth.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 5, 2016
Genre Indie rock
Label Fat Possum Records
American Wrestlers chronology
American Wrestlers
(2015)
Goodbye Terrible Youth
(2016)
Singles from Goodbye Terrible Youth
  1. "Give Up"
    Released: August 16, 2016
  2. "Amazing Grace"
    Released: September 22, 2016
  3. "Hello, Dear"
    Released: October 11, 2016

Goodbye Terrible Youth is the second studio album by the indie rock band American Wrestlers, released on November 4, 2016 on Fat Possum Records.

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

American Wrestlers band from the US

American Wrestlers is an American indie rock band from St. Louis, Missouri, United States, formed in 2014. Initially founded as a solo project by Scottish musician Gary McClure, the band also includes Bridgette Imperial, Ian Reitz and Josh Van Hoorebeke.

Fat Possum Records record label

Fat Possum Records is an American independent record label based in Water Valley and Oxford, Mississippi. At first Fat Possum focused almost entirely on recording previously unknown Mississippi blues artists. Recently, Fat Possum has signed younger rock acts to its roster. The label has been featured in The New York Times, New Yorker, The Observer, a Sundance Channel production, features on NPR, and a 2004 documentary, You See Me Laughin. Fat Possum also distributes the Hi Records catalog.

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Goodbye Terrible Youth received favourable reviews upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 77, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Standard score

In statistics, the standard score is the signed fractional number of standard deviations by which the value of an observation or data point is above the mean value of what is being observed or measured. Observed values above the mean have positive standard scores, while values below the mean have negative standard scores.

Praising the album's improved production values, in comparison to its home-recorded predecessor, American Wrestlers , and the participation of the full band, Allmusic's Marcy Donelson wrote: [Goodbye Terrible Youth] also exhibits a sleeker sound than the notably rough-hewn debut, with McClure having invested in "a laptop and some decent microphones." Thankfully, these changes don't erode the outfit's free-spirited charisma. If anything, the effect here is more similar to moving from a live recording to the studio than into something that's watered down or compromised." [2]

<i>American Wrestlers</i> (album) 2014 studio album by American Wrestlers

American Wrestlers is the debut studio album by indie rock act American Wrestlers, initially self-released on BandCamp in 2014, and re-released on April 7, 2015 on Fat Possum Records. The album was recorded entirely by Gary McLure on an eight-track Tascam recorder.

In a positive review for Pitchfork, Brian Burlage wrote, "The album is a significant improvement for a band that’s still coming into its own, still, in other words, in its youth." [3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Vote Thatcher"2:51
2."Give Up"3:25
3."So Long"3:39
4."Hello, Dear"3:07
5."Amazing Grace"3:50
6."Terrible Youth"4:17
7."Blind Kids"2:53
8."Someone Far Away"3:56
9."Real People"3:41

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "Reviews for Goodbye Terrible Youth by American Wrestlers". Metacritic . Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 Donelson, Marcy. "American Wrestlers - Goodbye Terrible Youth - American Wrestlers". AllMusic . Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  3. Burlage, Brian (1 November 2016). "American Wrestlers - Goodbye Terrible Youth Review". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved 4 November 2016.