Each week, as I construct my playlist for Radioculars, I troll a heap of music blogs, and listen to hours of music on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. But rarely have I been so instantly smitten by an unknown band's single unexplained track. When I first heard American Wrestlers' I Can Do No Wrong, it threw me into a musical existential crisis of sorts. Who is this band? Where did this music come from? How does it totally hit the spot for me? What? When? Why!?

Since that moment I've been hungrily following a trail of morsels tossed out by the big music blogs or picked up from the band's own social media, to cobble together a bio: the album was self-recorded on 8 track cassette by a Scottish songwriter who lives in Missouri after having possibly eloped there with a British woman. They played a gig near my hometown and I begged friends to go check it out simply to report back with more info to no avail.

I pre-ordered the I Can Do No Wrong 7" just to hear the b side, I've been clamoring for more so much. And now, at last, another glimpse of what we can expect from the American Wrestlers debut: Kelly- a song about Kelly Thomas, a mentally-ill homeless man who was beaten to death by police in Orange County in 2011. (according to The Fader) Have a listen:

Full LP American Wrestlers is out on 4/7/15 on Fat Possum. Or you can grab the I Can Do No Wrong 7" now!