The Arm Wrestling Tournament

The Arm Wrestling Tournament

It’s impossible to listen to Guts Club’s debut album without thinking of the second Palace Brothers album, Days in the Wake. Both feature a solitary figure—Will Oldham for Palace Brothers, Lindsey Baker for Guts Club—strumming and fingerpicking an acoustic guitar while a chair squeaks and their unusual, but somehow perfect, singing voice guides songs that feel like they could fall apart at any second. Baker’s bio says that she’s a former child beauty queen whose father was an arm-wrestling enthusiast. This unusually desolate album was recorded by Tyler Wood of Oh My Goodness somewhere in New York’s Catskills Mountains. 

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