Goodbye Terrible Youth (LP)

'Goodbye Terrible Youth' is the second album from St Louis-by-way-of-Scotland songwriter, Gary McClure.

Performing under the name American Wrestlers, Gary's 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 Gary's 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 - he's embraced a bigger sound and stage on 'Goodbye Terrible Youth', his rueful yet propulsive song writing only becoming sharper.