How We Quit the Forest

How We Quit the Forest
Studio album by Rasputina
Released	August 4, 1998
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Columbia
Producer	Chris Vrenna Melora Creager
Rasputina chronology
Transylvanian Regurgitations (1997) How We Quit the Forest (1998) The Olde HeadBoard (1998)

How We Quit the Forest is the second studio album from Rasputina, released in 1998. After years of being out of print, it was re-released by frontwoman Melora Creager on her own label, Filthy Bonnet, on CD and for the first time, vinyl, in 2011. Former Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna produced the album and provided its many sounds and samples.

A long box edition was also manufactured, previous to its wide release, for promotional purposes. It contained a story-book with art put together by Creager, also featured as a CD extra program activated when used in a computer. It is very difficult to find.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Tim Sheridan of Allmusic commented "This band deals in what can only be called chamber-goth: a grungey cello-driven rock that is perfect for those nights when you just want to feel creepy. While the sound is original and sometimes very effective, the overwrought vocal vibrato gets tedious."^[2] Tom Lanham of Amazon.com commented "You can litmus-test yourself with the name alone. If you don't appreciate the stained-glass humor of a trio of corseted female cellists warping the moniker of the Mad Monk, chances are you're going to despise [...] one of the year's most curious releases. Get the gag? Good. You're in for one hell of a strange sonic trip... The disc is alternately jarring and gentle. Creager's subject matter gets downright sinister at times. Where else can you hear yarns concerning the ancient medical practice of leech application?"^[3]

Track listing

All tracks written by Melora Creager (except where noted). 

Credits and personnel

References