Well, here we are, another Violent Femmes record. This time they have a new drummer who plays a Weber grill instead of a traditional kit and it\u2019s incredibly annoying. When Gordon Gano raps on \u201cAnother Chorus,\u201d I\u2019m reminded of the dull and boring tracks found on Freak Magnet<\/i>. Having to redo the great 1994 track \u201cI\u2019m Nothin\u2019\u201d is rather redundant and does nothing to better the song. On th other hand, \u201cI Get What I Want\u201d is an intriguing enough song and showcases how well Gano can still sing after these years when he wants to put himself up to it.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s my shoddy hearing, but on a lot of the material, you can hardly hear any real percussion, and that\u2019s such a disappointment coming from such a great, percussion-led band. The fact that the songs are super short again just like they were in the late \u201890s is worrisome, as if there wasn\u2019t enough thought put into the songs. The title track, featuring Tom Verlaine of Television, is probably the best track here and is enriching while still showing off what the band are capable of when given the opportunity. \u201cI\u2019m Not Gonna Cry,\u201d while still very brief, is full of exotic sounds not really heard on a Femmes disc since the \u201880s. \u201cFree Ride\u201d sucks; there is nothing more needs to be said about it. Then there\u2019s the version of \u201cGod Bless America\u201d that closes out the record. It\u2019s just bizarre and so difficult to listen to. It\u2019s hard to tell if it\u2019s a joke or if it\u2019s completely sincere, but all I can say is it definitely the strangest song I\u2019ve heard on a Femmes record and that\u2019s really saying something.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, following up a great record like We Can Do Anything<\/i>, the band let themselves get stale and worn and went back to the old tricks that gave us lesser discs like Freak Magnet<\/i> and Rock!!!!!!!<\/i> It\u2019ll be interesting to see what the future holds for these once-revered icons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6239],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-45690","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-violent-femmes","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45690"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45690"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}