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Goodbye Terrible Youth
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  • Summary: Ex-Working For A Nuclear Free City guitarist Gary McClure added Ian Reitz, Josh Van Hoorebeke, and his wife, Bridgette Imperial for his second full-length release as American Wrestlers.
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  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. DIY Magazine
    Nov 4, 2016
    80
    There’s a great and clear leap forward this time around, but this still has all the cornerstones of what drove so much attention: the ability to lull listeners through power pop or be taken in dreamlike trances, lyrics that take you on new journeys with every listen.
  2. Q Magazine
    Nov 15, 2016
    80
    McClure says he's regressed to the catchy rock essentials after years spent experimenting: smart move. [Jan 2017, p.104]
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  3. Uncut
    Nov 22, 2016
    80
    At their best, on "Someone Far Away" and "Give Up," the group blends pop sparkle and melancholy indie charm in the manner of The Chills. [Jan 2017, p.21]
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  4. The Line of Best Fit
    Nov 1, 2016
    75
    Songs like “Give Up”, “So Long”, “Terrible Youth”--all of them, really, there are only nine--are fuzzed out and unfussy, but not just simple pleasures. They kick in the door but then make themselves welcome for a long stay.
  5. Pitchfork
    Nov 1, 2016
    71
    Although the scattered nature of some of the songs keeps any single narrative from taking shape, the album is a significant improvement for a band that’s still coming into its own, still, in other words, in its youth.
  6. No Ripcord
    Dec 12, 2016
    70
    It does breeze on by without any major impact, but there’s a select number of pleasantly bittersweet cuts that are sure to liven up your afternoon commute for weeks on end.
  7. The Guardian
    Nov 3, 2016
    60
    While Amazing Grace has the low-key wistfulness of late-era Teenage Fanclub. Yet with this narrowing of focus comes a sense of safeness, and you can’t help but miss the sense of risk-taking that characterised McClure’s ramshackle early work.

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