You have to admire rock critics who aren’t afraid to climb onstage themselves. Luckily, Pitchfork Media scribe Matt LeMay—who notoriously gave Liz Phair’s eponymous 2003 record an almost unheard of “0.0” rating—is as exacting about his own songs as he is others’: Last year’s Geography Cones, the debut by LeMay’s Get Him Eat Him, is a bracing, quirky grafting of XTC and Les Savy Fav that seemed tailor-made for Pitchfork-ophiles. The disc’s solid popcraft ultimately pays off, even if the new sophomore effort, Arms Down, is a mostly unremarkable streamlining of its predecessor. Headliner The Wrens hit a career apex with 2003’s The Meadowlands, a sleeper classic that has set the stakes impossibly high for a follow-up. There’s no word of a new album, but a documentary about the band’s continuing efforts to produce it is in the works. Opening: Moonlight Towers. (Get Him Eat Him also plays an in-store at End Of An Ear at 6 p.m.) www.theonion.com