WESLEY GONZALEZ

I am moved. He is already fat and bald, and is no longer the cute boy he was back then. But he is overwhelmingly not Andy Partridge. He is not like Andy Partridge, who was dropped as producer by Damon one day after Blur's album was half completed, saying, "It's not a question of whether it's good or bad, but doesn't this seem a bit geeky?" Wesley Gonzales, the frontman of Let's Wrestle, a band that was active in the UK indie movement of the '00s but was only liked by fans (the president of What's Your Rupture? in the USA, which releases ICEAGE and BODEGA, also said he liked them at the time), is so moved by his 2020 solo album. He got the XTC and HOSONO lines, but he didn't become MAC Demarco, and he sings as a British guy. It's the pop ...