 Pussy Riot has released seven songs and five videos . An Associated Press reporter described them as " badly recorded , based on simple riffs and scream @-@ like singing " , and stated that critics had dismissed them as " amateur , provocative and obscene " . The A.V. Club described them as an " excellent band " with " fuzzed @-@ out guitars and classic Riot Grrrl chants " . In an opinion piece for The New York Times , Pitchfork Media reviewer Michael Idov wrote , " judging [ Pussy Riot ] on artistic merit would be like chiding the Yippies because Pigasus the Immortal , the pig they ran for president in 1968 , was not a viable candidate . " 
