Album Review: Violent Femmes – Add It Up [Vinyl Reissue] (Craft Recordings)

Of all of the 1980s alt bands you expected to still be relevant and churning out some of their best music decades later, Wisconsin’s Violent Femmes would likely be one of the long shots. They were/are a fantastic trio turning out left of center quirky brilliant anthems for all of the kids who didn’t fit in. But an acoustic folk punk band led by a warbled-voiced front man doesn’t exactly scream career longevity. But here we are, 38 years after the Violent Femmes shockingly brilliant self-titled debut and the band is still touring and still churning out great albums. So, it seems only appropriate to finally re-release Add It Up, the 1993 comp pulling together nearly two dozen of the band’s best – on vinyl for the first time since the initial pressing of the record. It includes, obviously, th...

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