"... Rancid Yak Butter Tea Party certainly needs all the gimmicks they can think up: space suits, theramin, the band's name. They were a joke, and a not particularly funny one at that. Disjointedly stringing together listless, groove-less riffs which last 90 seconds to others of similar ilk is a numbing bore. They're the Residents without the adventure nor the true avant garde nature ..."

-John Petric
The Other Paper, Vol. 13, No. 38
July 3-9, 2003






"... Close the night with the Rancid Yak Butter Tea Party at a packed Bozo Stage. I find them incredibly boring and keep waiting for the robots like last year. The robots never arrive ..."

-Chad Painter
The Other Paper, Vol. 13, No. 38
July 3-9, 2003