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Mar 25, 2016Cut down to a mini-album, We Can Do Anything would have been better worth the wait.
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Mar 16, 2016They still sound as brilliantly odd as their seminal self-titled debut.
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Mar 7, 2016Roughly half of the album cleaves fabulously to this back-to-basics template, with songs such as What You Really Mean drawing out the doo-wop sadness in Gano’s songcraft. The rest is what you might call “touring” Femmes.
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Q MagazineMar 1, 2016On this first album in 16 years, return unspoilt, showcasing Gano's helter-skelter take on familiarly rootsy targets such as Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, country and rockabilly. [Apr 2016, p.116]
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Mar 1, 2016Even when things get silly on We Can Do Anything, the silliness blows on by, headed toward a bit of revved-up folk or unexpected introspection, and those twists are what makes the album worth hearing.
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Mar 4, 2016The band’s ninth studio effort 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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Mar 4, 2016Too often, solid tracks like “Foothills”--never mind its ridiculous and hilarious rhymes like “I’ll take lunch with my coworkers / But after work I just go berzerkers”--are lost among the album’s wackier, ambitious forays.
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Mar 3, 2016They're not trying to pull off anything like that any more; instead, 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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Mar 23, 2016The 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.