With a reputation as sharp as their sonic sensibilities, Watch Your Tone proves tonality isn’t any afterthought in Mr. Wrestle. The Los Angeles-based post-whatever trio—Andy Hoopes (guitar, vocals), Sam Thorne (bass, vocals), and Jenna Terranova (drums)—tear by rock’s lineage with a fuzz-soaked, sludgy surf punk cost that lands in the way forward for the style. Sardonically subversive lyrics amplify the hook-rife hit’s immersive pull, with installations of energy pop panache guaranteeing there’s simply as a lot sugar as there’s garagey grit.
Falling for the hype is easy when a band can hammer out infectious earworms with this stage of precision. Followers of Teenage Fanclub and The Wildhearts will discover loads to sink their tooth into, although Watch Your Tone’s means to weaponise chaos into anthemic choruses is completely their very own.
In the event that they hit this tough on file, the stay expertise have to be nothing wanting an intravenous shot of euphoria and adrenaline. Watch Your Tone had been by no means made to be contained by the underground—Mr. Wrestle is proof of that.
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Evaluation by Amelia Vandergast
