[TheMadcapLaughs]

i think they really fell off when they lost sarah jaffe on guitar. not that they suck or anything. that first album is just sooooo great!

[atsonicpark]

Yeah, night life is their weakest though I do dig it -- sarah's guitar style is so unique and awesome, those little spindly skeleton riffs. You always hear plenty of bands play little riffs like hers in a verse or something, but she'd make whole songs around them. Really brilliant guitar player. I know they had a man in the band for a while playing guitar, wonder what happened there..

[SpaceCadetHayden]

Other Animals Are #1 is still one of my favorite albums ever and last night, my friends were all fried on shroomies and mephedrone, and were staring at my At Crystal Palace sleeve for a good hour.

[DJ Rick]

I suppose they made the guitar style of Sarah Jaffe work, but I still think they got so much better after she left and Jenny played guitar with all ten fingers. "Cruising" still sounds monstrous, and Nightlife is still their strongest by a mile IMO.

[atsonicpark]

I think one thing about Night Life is that all the songs sound distinct; they definitely "matured" their sound in the fullest sense of the word. I think there was definitely a lot more going on, and it takes a few listens to really get into. Still, the immaturity/skeletal/somewhat broken sound of their first 2 albums is what really got me into the band. I think they got better, technically, but there was just something about those first 2 albums -- some sense of mystery, a sense of immaturity, etc. that kinda makes me keep reaching for those instead. For a lack of a better example, their first 2 albums are Surfer Rosa, Nightlife is their Trompe Le Monde.

I think Crystal Palace is my favorite, because it is a lot more mature compared to the first album, with some really mean distorted bass riffs and a bit more complexity, but it still has those nasty high pitched riffs.