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Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the second album for the D.C.-based duo of Ian MacKaye (Fugazi) and Amy Farina (The Warmers).
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. The record is absolutely at a pace with the band's great debut.
  2. The Evens' first disc was pointed and protesting, to be sure, but here, on Get Evens, the raw feeling of the record makes the message here more pointed, more specific, and more meaningful.
  3. Get Evens is the aural embodiment of the sublimated rage of their debut. Though the instrumentation is still spare, it's meatier and more aggressive.
  4. Get Evens is a grittier, more overtly political follow-up to their charming debut.
  5. Mojo
    70
    Theirs is an ire that deserves to be heard. [Dec 2006, p.110]
  6. Uncut
    40
    [It] sees [MacKaye] playing to his weaknesses. [Dec 2006, p.106]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. JonC
    Dec 6, 2006
    10
    If only more musicians were this poetically outspoken and musically creative. The most quiet, angry album I'll ever hear.
  2. BigTomCasual
    Dec 6, 2006
    7
    I expected more from this based on their first release together and their other projects. I found a lot of this to be pretty boring, unfortunately.