Review: Bruce Lee and the Streetfighters — Pretty Lies

Bruce Lee and the Streetfighters
Pretty Lies
Self-Released
Street: 01.30.2026
Bruce Lee and the Streetfighters = Everclear + Whirr

Combine funky basslines, airy and wavy guitar riffs and the perfect monotone yet emotional vocals all in one large melting pot, and the result is Pretty Lies by Bruce Lee and the Streetfighters. 

Pretty Lies gives the feeling of being on a roller coaster with a dramatic quick drop you were not expecting and a smooth ride to the end. As you start the album, you hear a smooth, funky, but powerful bassline on the track “A Way Out” that I can only describe as the perfect song to be layered over any ending scene of a coming-of-age movie where the main character escapes their hometown for a new or better life. Imagine a freshly graduated high school super jock looking to make a new name for himself away from a small countryside town, driving a mean, loud, fast, American muscle car (I personally choose a Red 1985 IROC-Z Camaro), flying down the interstate on his way to start a new life in the big city. I can see it now, especially with the hook just repeating the lyrics, “I gotta find / A way out.” 

Once you hit tracks five and beyond, there is a dramatic shift in tone from the previous tracks on the record. This took me by surprise upon my first listen, but it grew on me as I kept listening to Pretty Lies on repeat. You get a more eerie, less airy, slower and heavier tone from this point on. You go from “A Way Out,” which is light, airy and almost wholesome to “Pay a Tension,” which feels like a full step in a different direction with a more aggressive and heavier tone. This tone shift adds the depth I was looking for to Pretty Lies because you could fully convince me that the first four tracks on this record were all one long, continuous song. Not a bad thing in the case of this record, seeing as I can’t get enough of it.

It’s hard to choose a single favorite track on Pretty Lies, so I’m gonna make the executive decision to give my number one spot to two separate tracks. On one hand, you have “Lost Your Head” that transports me back to the early 2000s, playing Sonic Adventure 2 on the Gamecube I got for my birthday. It’s a track that I feel should be playing as you fly through the air, speed through loop-de-loops and grind as that egotistical blue hedgehog in his iconic red sneakers, whose only goal is collecting the chaos emeralds before they fall into the hands of the evil Dr. Eggman, who plans to destroy the world. 

As for my second number one track on the album, I have to give it to “Pay a Tension.” You get a glimpse of the story that is going to unfold by the end of this track, but you have to pay close a tension to the lyrics from the first second. Combine the heavier, more ominous and almost Acid Bath style riff that starts with a crazy unexpected dive bomb that sounds like a siren blaring, lyrics such as “Your deception is paramount / but I know what you did that night / fuck around, find yourself hands tied, broken, six feet underground / face down, never to be found.” Add the layered screaming vocals, and you get a horror-movie-style storyline to this track. The last half of the track is what really caught my ear, but upon my countless listens, the whole song is a masterpiece.

Bruce Lee and the Streetfighters has a formula that I can’t fully explain but has me totally hooked and looking forward to any and all new releases. —Skyler Montalvo

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