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    en Apple Music

    Release Date 2006

    Duration 40:50

    Genre Pop/Rock

    Styles Alternative/Indie Rock,


    Indie Rock, Alternative
    Pop/Rock

    Recording Date June, 2006

    Recording Location Dischord House

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    Cut from the Cloth


    1 05:11
    The Evens

    Everybody Knows
    2 04:33
    The Evens

    Cache Is Empty
    3 04:27
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    Get Evens Review by Chris True

    Normally, when a band decides to scale back


    production and embellishment on a record, it's
    really no big deal. Many bands decide to drop
    the overdubs, or reduce the keyboards, or
    only work with a live horn section, for
    example. But when your band consists of two
    people, one playing baritone guitar and
    singing while the other drums and sings,
    "scaling back" seems like an impossibility. On
    the first Evens release, Ian MacKaye and Amy
    Farina had scaled back the angularity and
    electric dominance of their prior bands
    (Fugazi and Warmers, respectively) and
    chose to keep the music subtle, rooted in
    atmospherics. Adding to the stripped down
    lineup, Farina and MacKaye added piano and
    mood through post-production to give the
    album a rather warm, close feel. Although at
    times some of the tones could be jarring or
    the rhythms jagged, moods and atmosphere
    would swirl in and out, giving a slightly less
    than organic feel, leaving the listener safe in
    the opinion that a lot of the record could not
    be re-created on-stage in such detail. For Get
    Evens, their second full-length, the Evens
    must have agreed, and embarked on a
    recording process that was much more
    immediate, eschewing piano and overdubs,
    recording the songs with a more "live" sound,
    culminating in a record that is rough, angular,
    and wholly organic. But that is only half the
    picture. Both Farina and MacKaye spent a
    great deal of time in their previous bands
    dealing in what can only be called more
    abstract lyrical ideas. Sure, there is no
    mistaking the meanings behind Fugazi's
    "Great Cop," or "Give Me the Cure," but much
    of that band's conceptual fare was left up the
    ear and mind of the listener. With the Evens,
    MacKaye and Farina have obviously decided
    to leave that mindset behind, making pointed
    protest and criticism without flinching.
    "Everybody Knows," with its scathing
    indictment of the real purpose of politicians
    and George W. Bush, pulls no punches.
    There's no doubt as to what "you fabricated
    your way in here and everybody knows...you
    are a liar" means, or whom it's meant for.
    Being from D.C., and living in these times, it's
    no great surprise that the targets of MacKaye
    and Farina are the elected officials currently
    residing on Pennsylvania Ave. and others
    inhabiting federal offices. One only needs to
    take one listen to "Dinner with the President"
    to get the idea. But the easy political targets
    aren't the only ones examined on this disc.
    The overreaching of government resultant
    from cashing in on fear and paranoia in the
    years since 9/11 get a fantastic (and arguably
    best so far in terms of songs on the matter)
    reading on "All You Find You Keep." The
    emptiness of plastic culture ("Cache Is
    Empty"), consumerism ("Eventually") and --
    most important to the overall theme of the
    record -- freedom ("Get Even") are
    examinations that gain so much from the
    decision to keep things as raw and real as
    possible. 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. Protest has always
    worked best when it is free of embellishment
    that may diffuse the message. By keeping the
    proceedings more proletarian, like their shows,
    the Evens have created a record that
    blossoms because -- as they themselves put
    it -- "there's nothing in the way."

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    Cut from the Cloth


    1 The Evens 05:11
    The Evens

    Everybody Knows
    2 The Evens 04:33
    The Evens

    Cache Is Empty
    3 The Evens 04:27
    The Evens

    You Fell Down


    4 The Evens 03:12
    The Evens

    Pushed Against the


    5 Wall The Evens 03:34
    The Evens

    No Money
    6 The Evens 03:59
    The Evens

    All You Find You


    7 Keep The Evens 04:38
    The Evens

    Eventually
    8 The Evens 04:34
    The Evens

    Get Even
    9 The Evens 03:38
    The Evens

    Dinner with the


    10 President The Evens 03:04
    The Evens

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