Mainstream rockers Violent Femmes return with 'We Can Do Anything'
THE FONDLY remembered mainstream rock band Violent Femmes have returned to the scene
with their 'We Can Do Anything' album. Read a review in Record
Collector magazine, "Mostly plundered from front man Gordon Gano's
archive of song ideas, Violent Femmes' ninth album - their first
for 16 years - is very much a mixed platter. Gano's idiosyncratic,
jerky yowl is surprisingly unchanged from the band's early '80s
post-punk heyday. Their energy isn't quite as spiky, their intensity
less urgent, but they've held on to their trademark jittering guitars
and drums, sing-a-long hooks and skewed Jonathan Richman-like faux
naivete. . . [The] cracking standout 'Holy Ghost' channels
'Subterranean Homesick Blues' in its verse delivery."