"The Evens" by The Evens (2005)
Artist: |
The Evens |
Album: |
The Evens |
Released In: |
2005 |
Reviewed By: |
Tyson Cantrell |
Grade: |
3.5 |
Ian MacKaye has to be about 85 years old by now. He's had to put down the heavy, hard rocking guitar for the lighter, slower baritone guitar. Along with the help from friend Amy Farina on drums and vocals, The Evens are the type of band that you would expect to hear on the Forest Gump soundtrack. This is seriously the ultimate flower children revival record that we've all been waiting for. I'm not really a folky, artsy music type of cat, but I found Ian's drunken sailor voice box quite entertaining.
I will admit, though, that it did take quite a few spins and a good bit of patience before I was able to see the light. For a while there I was really hardcore into Fugazi, but after watching the "Instrument movie" at least 100 times in one summer I came to resent their over-the-top, "more PC than Ian" politically correct bullshit. I'll stop comparing other bands since readers hate that, I guess the reason I brought Fugazi into this is because, like The Evens, their lyrics are witty, clever, and often to obtuse to understand. Take for example the song "If It's Water," "Blue, mixed with white will still be blue/ add water and the color is still true." I'll buy a round of drinks to the first person to tell me what that's supposed to mean.
Anyway, allowing Ian a senior moment to have an Ensure or two really paid off on the album. Ian's monotone rambling combined with Amy's unibrow-beating really sounds like yesterday once more.
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