Call it eerily prophetic that a politically charged album titled Get Evens was released shortly before the GOP lost control of Congress. Unfortunately, that might be the only noteworthy thing about the CD, released by Ian MacKaye and The Warmers’ Amy Farina under the moniker The Evens. Let’s get something off our chests: Yes, we understand that MacKaye is a legend in the D.C. music scene. We enjoy Fugazi and Minor Threat just as much as the next reviewer. But that doesn’t mean we should go easy on him. A misstep is a misstep.

The greatest thing about The Evens’ 2005 self-titled debut album was that while it wasn’t entirely memorable, it managed to capture the sound of two like-minded musicians getting together and recording the first thing that came to mind – short bursts of stripped-down, improvised alternative rock. At times, it was the musical equivalent of a decent Christopher Guest film. The worst thing about Get Evens is that it sounds like two like-minded musicians got together and recorded the second thing that came to mind – drawn out but still stripped-down alternative rock.