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Paste Magazine

Like Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Quit +/or Fight flirts with perfection, a cohesive collection of all-too-fleeting pleasures.

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Delusions of Adequacy

There's enough diversity amongst these 11 songs to showcase the band's unique talents.

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Pitchfork

Quit +/or Fight may lack the immediate melodic punch of the band's debut-- it forsakes pristine strums for skewering electric guitar and scrappier arrangements-- but what the record sacrifices in warmth, it makes up for in atmospherics.

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Entertainment Weekly

[Their] plaintive, country-tinged tunes are quietly lovely. [12 Aug 2005, p.79]

Almost Cool

Imagine a highly narcotic Shins with even more subtle instrumentation and you're getting somewhere close.

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All Music Guide

Both intimate and powerful, Quit +/or Fight is a striking achievement.

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Lost At Sea

It is clear Holopaw know how to unearth beauty when grounded in the harshness of reality; they also have the wisdom to leave the indisputably beautiful moments just as they found them: ready and able to elevate the soul.

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Urb

At times it can feel like the Flaming Lips locked in a log cabin with a bottle of morphine. [Sep 2005, p.119]

cokemachineglow

Quit +/Or Fight is in a select catalog of records able to build songs out of studio arrangements that never seem contrived or overdone.

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Stylus Magazine

A work far more potent and lasting than their debut.

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Splendid

Holopaw's delicate, subdued second album lacks their debut's sharp peaks and valleys.

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PopMatters

Like R.E.M.'s vaunted Murmur, these songs are most adept at creating worlds for the listener to enter and engage, which may be different with every spin.

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Junkmedia

[Has] a mysterious backwoods vibe worthy of Murmur-era REM.

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Under The Radar

The songs aren't quite as immediate as their self-titled debut, but... they're making folk friendly for the electronic age. [#10, p.115]

Alternative Press

Most of the songs... aren't nearly as interesting as the album's title, offering only random snippets of truly engaging music. [Sep 2005, p.156]

Prefix Magazine

Passively waiting to be noticed, Holopaw’s second album, Quit +/or Fight, is like the kid who never raises his hand in class but whom everyone knows is the smartest in the room.

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Tiny Mix Tapes

Orth would do well to pay more attention to whipping his songs into shape next time around.

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Magnet

Nearly buries itself in interesting ideas that are ultimately unrewarding. [#69, p.98]

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