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Lead guitarist Pat Place and vocalist Cynthia Sley produced the most distinctive aspects of the Tetras sound.

Place's guitar lines were rhythmic and distortion-filled.

She had been the original guitarist and one of the founding members of the No Wave band The Contortions.

With Bush Tetras, Pat continued to pursue some of the musical ideas she had explored in that band, although her distinctive slide guitar is absent from many of the Tetras songs.

Sley's vocals were half-spoken, half-sung.

In songs like " Too Many Creeps " and " Can't Be Funky ," she repeated simple phrases over and over again, creating a hypnotic monotony similar to Place's guitar rhythms.