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  • Summary: Picking up on the sounds of late 70s / early 80s post-punk and no-wave, this all-female Bay Area quartet drew positive notices for their debut 'Other Animals' and now return with a sophomore LP two years later.
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  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Spin
    91
    They clearly prize improvisation and spontaneity; the songs always sound like they were written this morning, refined over lunch, and recorded in time for happy hour. [Jan 2004, p.103]
  2. The Wire
    90
    Stands as a monument to punk rock action at its most intelligent. [#236, p.60]
  3. Erase Errata knows the ways of economy in both senses of the term, and though it fits neatly into the rash of albums helping punk get its groove back, At Crystal Palace casts a long shadow during its 27-minute seethe.
  4. This record finds a band scaling the heights of their precise craft in a way that gives upward mobility a good name.
  5. Blender
    70
    Urgent, atonal post-punk. [Nov 2003, p.113]
  6. There's not passion, or spite, or fever, or anything exactly. I'm not sure what to feel when listening to it.
  7. Mojo
    40
    They're a little short on the kind of tunefulness necessary to make these chorus-less songs stand out. [Dec 2003, p.112]

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  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
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  1. lareine
    Nov 19, 2003
    9
    wicked good!!!