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Slaughter: The Wild Life  

Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 17 December 1996

AT ITS BEST, Slaughter fills the same niche today that garage bands filled in the mid-'60s – a speedy and loud but pretty and danceable combo with psychedelic pretensions and fashionable haircuts, imitative hacks from the git-go but perfect for suburban girls who need to break free of the seventh-grade grind.

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