Darling, That's The Way It Is.



Let’s Wrestle – I Won’t Lie To You

As arch self-deprecators and the authors of “I Wish I Was In Husker Du” and “Music Is My Girlfriend”, it was obvious really that if my life were adapted into a sit-com, Let’s Wrestle would provide the music. And on this track - the lead-off from their 2007 ‘In Loving Memory Of…’ CD on Stolen Recordings – they’ve really nailed that concept good and proper. As the first verse rolls by, I can almost see the credits sequence montage of images of myself suffering minor, comedic misfortunes, and grinning them off like a big oaf in the doomed hope that I may one day rise above it all.

For all their youth, their self-deprecations and their barely concealed reservoirs of self-pity though, Let’s Wrestle can’t help but also convey the feeling you had when you were a teenager, and you thought you were doing alright at it, until you happen across another bunch of loser kids who you know are funnier, smarter, sharper and more cynical than you’ll ever manage to be. Such is the feeling when Let’s Wrestle open the second verse by singing, “the duvet’s on fire, and so is your hair, but darling…. that’s the way it is”, and I am overcome by the knowledge that nothing that off-handedly absurd and wonderful will ever cross my lips.

Quick fingered bass-man Mike Lightning can also be heard here accidentally rediscovering the joys of the bass-line from The Rezillos ‘Can’t Stand My Baby’, for all the world to enjoy anew.

Labels: Let's Wrestle, song reviews