Violent Femmes - New Times

The Violent Femmes’ sixth album, 1994’s NEW TIMES, features the addition of a new drummer and is a solid addition to the band’s canon. Opening with the straightforward--for the Femmes, anyway--” Don’t Start Me on the Liquor,” another Gordon Gano tale of decaying humans set to a jaunty beat, and a title track vaguely reminiscent of ”The Monster Mash,” the album settles down.The sinister acoustic guitar base of ”Breaking Up” gives way to a weird, haunted-house organ mid-section. ”4 Seasons” offers a nod to the band’s propulsive, jangling past, complete with Gano’s particularly strange vocal infl ections. ”Machine” features a theremin in a one-joke song about taking over the world. Fortunately, it is a good joke. ”Agamemnon” recalls some of the more out-there moments of the They Might Be Giants catalogue, and ”I Saw You in the Crowd” employs a Beatles-esque riff before accelerating into a scale-climbing middle section. The album ends on the more bleakly toned ”Jesus of Rio,” an odd combination of Gano’s personal failures, religious sentiments, and political statements. Tracklist: 1. Don’t Start Me On The Liquor (4:07) 2. New Times (4:07) 3. Breakin’ Up (4:01) 4. Key Of 2 (3:31) 5. 4 Seasons (3:07) 6. Machine (4:39) 7. I’m Nothing (2:35) 8. When Everybody’s Happy (3:36) 9. Agamemnon (2:56) 10. This Island Life (5:31) 11. I Saw You In The Crowd (4:07) 12. Mirror Mirror (I See A Damsel) (4:30) 13. Jesus Of Rio (3:35)

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