• Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Mar 1, 2024
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Mar 6, 2024
    80
    For all the sturm und drang on Half Divorced, the component parts of each song are well-differentiated and clean. You get a clear sense of both the individual performances and their interaction.
  2. Classic Rock Magazine
    Mar 1, 2024
    80
    An iron-clad structural damage-inducing delight from start to finish. Early contender for punk album of the year. [Apr 2024, p.79]
  3. Mar 1, 2024
    80
    This is an adrenaline rush of an album, an electric shock in a world of flabby gas. Proof, if any were needed, that it’s possible to reinvent the wheel if you’re committed enough to the spin.
  4. Feb 27, 2024
    80
    At the point where most bands start to slow down, Pissed Jeans have hit the accelerator.
  5. Mojo
    Feb 27, 2024
    80
    Pissed Jeans' fist-pumping tunes, thrilling noise and acidic wit ensure their permanent bummer is always a good time. [Apr 2024, p.87]
  6. Feb 27, 2024
    80
    Half Divorced is packed full of pep. They’ve stomped on the gas and it burns along like a raging forest fire.
  7. Uncut
    Feb 27, 2024
    80
    Matt Korvette is a misanthropic force of nature whether ticking off the negatives of cities from Boston to Rome ("Everywhere IS Bad") or addressing adult responsibility ("Helicopter Parent"). [Mar 2024, p.33]
  8. Mar 6, 2024
    73
    Pissed Jeans haven’t overhauled their sound or reinvented themselves or “matured” as artists so much as they have amassed a new inventory of modern miseries to turn into scuzz-punk tantrums, from catalytic converter theft (“[Stolen] Catalytic Converter”) to crippling medical debt ("Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt").
  9. Mar 18, 2024
    70
    It sounds like grim going, and in many ways, it is. It’s an endless litany of the eternal horribleness of modern living, set to a relentless onslaught of distorted guitars, corkscrewing bass, pummeling drums, and Korvette’s signature bark. It’d be almost unbearable if it weren’t so damned funny.
  10. Mar 4, 2024
    70
    Half Divorced is Pissed Jeans' chosen form of therapy for folks who really, REALLY don't like Mondays. Or most of the rest of the week.
  11. Mar 4, 2024
    70
    ‘Half Divorced’ is a bolshy barrage played out over the course of 12 short, sharp tracks.
  12. Feb 29, 2024
    70
    It’s fast, furious, funny, sad and above all real.

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