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8.0
84405
8.0 |
The Music
The Femmes still possess a surplus of substance to augment their undeniable style
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8.0
84409
8.0 |
Evening Standard
On these rousing, self-aware and sometimes puerile songs, they’re a band back to their best
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8.0
85643
8.0 |
Uncut
Back at last, with a fresh and natural ninth
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7.0
86085
7.0 |
Gig Soup
A decent record with some fun moments, and one that should be able to hold it’s own reasonably well in appraisals of their work
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7.0
84502
7.0 |
Clash
The promise of more music comes with closer ‘I’m Not Done’, a fitting end from a band who’ve hopefully buried their differences and continue to deliver more mad tales and soundscapes
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7.0
84521
7.0 |
Exclaim
The Femmes still have the power to tap into the adolescent wonder that lives on inside of all of us, ready to be flooded over with raw, silly, high-spirited music
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6.5
84407
6.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The band have successfully fuelled We Can Do Anything with the scruffy-but-vibrant spontaneity that made all their earlier records the much loved works they are
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6.0
84404
6.0 |
All Music
Gano sounds as twitchy as ever, always poised on the brink of apoplexy, either at himself or some piece of nonsense
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6.0
84446
6.0 |
The Observer
Veteran rockers go back to basics
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5.8
84406
5.8 |
Consequence Of Sound
Ebbs and flows, but in the end, it has enough going for it to merit its existence, which is more than a lot of bands can say about their second-stands
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5.0
84403
5.0 |
A.V. Club
Would be better served as a solid EP worth of Femmes material
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5.0
84957
5.0 |
The Digital Fix
The album runs at ten brisk tracks and really runs at a 50/50 split between highlights and filler; the key problem here
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4.6
84402
4.6 |
Pitchfork
They're polishing up the durable façade of their signature sound, while the songwriting that it used to support has crumbled
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4.0
85117
4.0 |
NOW
The album repeatedly teases you with glimpses of the unhinged, earnest urgency that made the Violent Femmes semi-famous, and then flips into an annoying faux naive whimsy just as you’re starting to enjoy it
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4.0
84564
4.0 |
Spectrum Culture
You’ll likely turn this album off and simply play “Add it Up” again
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