The Odds (album)

Louder Than War, compared Farina's "soaring, cutting free voice" to that of Patti Smith, calling the record a "welcome missive from the heartland of idealistic musical culture that stands on its own terms with its musical content [...] a great record that is musically and emotionally powerful and stands out on its own as one of the key releases in this fractured and strange year."^[13] Pitchfork's Douglas Wolk praised the album, calling it a "powerful example of aging gracefully [...] The Odds is, in every way, the product of scaling down operations rather than of giving up or throwing the fans a nostalgia trip." However, the review does reserve some criticism for the track "Competing with the Till", on which Wolk describes the duo as sounding like "cranky old folks".^[8] The track is also criticized by Jordan Cronk of Cokemachineglow in an otherwise positive review, who describes the song as a "blunt and fairly awkward missive. Like a nervier rendition of Fugazi's “Returning the Screw," the track moves between a sparse narrative outlining the injustices perpetrated on the group by ignorant club owners and a twisting chorus that turns the title phrase into an easy potshot."^[14]

prison industrial complex in the context of the recession" – as "a haunting, complex look at economic injustice."^[4]