Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 64/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | favorable |
| Blender | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 0.6/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.6/10 |
| PopMatters | |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Rolling Stone | |
I Get Wet provoked sharp critical reaction when it was initially released. One writer wrote of the album's reaction: "critics of Andrew W.K. were often branded as the fun police and his fans considered fools or incurable ironists." On the review aggregate site Metacritic, the album has a score of 64 out of 100, indicating "Generally favorable reviews."
Allmusic's Heather Phares praised the album, writing: "While the album has a certain sameness due to the frenetic beat that drives nearly every track, it's the perfect complement to W.K.'s party-centric vision. Refreshingly simple and cleverly stupid, I Get Wet is a great big bear hug of an album, and resistance to its hard-partying charms is futile." Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone also gave the album a positive review, writing "There's no denying the over-the-top whomp of his music, the loudest and funniest metal you've heard in ages." NME's Jason Oldham called the album "an amazing experience," writing: "It's a record made entirely of raw eggs and steak, it's for people who like the smell of hot crack in the morning and if we were to write a review in a similar style it would have to be ENTIRELYINCAPTIALLETTERSWITHOUTANYPAUSESATALL."
Adrien Begrand of Popmatters gave the album a mixed review, writing "At its best, WK’s music is a refreshing blast of skanky air on the current stale music scene, but at its worst, it’s disappointingly monotonous, unoriginal, and very, very dumb." Magnet gave the album a scathing review, writing "Here, on one compact disc, is what's wrong with the music industry." Pitchfork Media originally gave the album a very negative review, with website founder Ryan Schreiber writing: "This here is about as empty as rock music gets, right down to the tinny, digitally processed tonebank noise that passes for 'guitars.'" However, in a review of the 2012 deluxe edition on the same website, Ian Cohen gave the album a Best New Reissue designation. Cohen referred to his own review of I Get Wet as Pitchfork Media's "biggest statistical mea culpa ever."
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