Goodbye Terrible Youth
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| Goodbye Terrible Youth | ||||
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| Released | November 5, 2016 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Label | Fat Possum Records | |||
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Goodbye Terrible Youth is the second studio album by the indie rock band American Wrestlers, released on November 4, 2016 on Fat Possum Records.
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| Metacritic | 77/100[1] |
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
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]
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]
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]