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The Beat Magazine August 2008
By Jennifer Caslin

From their college beginnings, Labeling Deloris has been a band not afraid to take chances. Moving to Nashville – Music City, USA – straight out of college and then on to Wilmington, a slightly less musically inclined city, was quite a risk. With their latest release, I Want Everything, they are chancing that all the risks will pay off with big success. As Jason Rigney (guitar) put it, "I think we've finally got the package we can put the bow on." Rigney and band mates Jennifer Reiff (vocals), Brad Rigney (bass), and Andrew Boudouris (drums) have been through a tumultuous year together and as they say in new track "Dane's Song," some things are overdue.

For Labeling Deloris, I Want Everything is a statement about where the band is right now: confident in the music they have created together from start to finish, and tired of trying to live up to ideals of what their music should sound like. With the new album, Labeling Deloris is also one step closer to harnessing the excitement and energy of their live show. Listen to "Give In", "Fix Me", or the title track and try to stop the hair from rising on the back of your neck. IWE is a hybrid of rock and pop that is rarely heard on the local scene, let alone on the radio or MTV. The songs are simple, catchy, and to the point but also have gained a maturity musically and lyrically that cannot be dismissed.

Ultimately, Labeling Deloris is ready to showcase their music to the world. It's time to stop saying "one day" for this band and I Want Everything is their green light.

I Want Everything available at iTunes and local music shops

Check out Labeling Deloris next August 22nd at the Soapbox

www.labelingdeloris.com

Album Review- Bootleg Magazine
Bootleg Magazine (Aug., 2008)

By: Brian Tucker

Following on the heels of 2006’s "For The Sake of Deloris" EP pop rock band Labeling Deloris release their first full length, "I Want Everything," ten tracks shifting from ballads thick with melodic measure to outright rockers. The title is apropos, and the songs are a mandate from a band covering the bases when it comes to song styles.

"I Want Everything" exercises strength by adding to what was created on the EP, capitalizing by crafting a sound that sometimes has a harder edge yet maintains melody and lyric topicality – love and respect, high school indifference, longing, defiance. 'You can have me/As long as you see within my skin' Jennifer Reiff sings on "Give In" or 'No I don’t want it all, I want everything' she sings with boldness and fire on the album’s title track.

Bridging Pat Benetar and Gwen Stefani, lead singer Reiff forges her own identity through sugared vocals and soulful punch. The band plays it carefully with their rock sound, not overdoing it, giving it edge along with harmony. The trippy, looping bass on "Fix Me" is a welcome surprise as is the sharp echo on "Give In" and the wah-wah of "I Want Everything." Reiff works her vocals simultaneously with Jason Rigney’s blistering guitar on the song. "Worn to the Wood" captures the band as its tightest, forging melancholy with musical subtlety. It’s a track that could explode but exercises restraint, reaching for feeling instead of crash and burn. "Go Ahead" does the same.

"I Want Everything" is workingman’s and working-woman’s rock music, a declaration that a rock band in 2008 can boast a female front and not suffer the weight of having to rely on it.

Star News - Currents (July 2008)
Deloris' label: Straightforward rock

By John Staton, Staff Writer

Ever since they won the old City Stage Battle of the Bands back in 2004, people have expected big things from Wilmington rockers Labeling Deloris.

With the powerful, passionate vocals of lead singer Jennifer Reiff well-matched to the familiar but clean and steady sound of her backing band - the Rigney brothers (Jason and Brad) on guitar and bass, with Andrew Boudouris on drums - Labeling Deloris had a sound that seemed made for modern rock radio. (And, in fact, the band has gotten airplay on local FM stations 98.3 and 107.5, as well as elsewhere.)

Labeling Deloris returned to Wilmington about a year ago after a stint in Nashville, and it appears the band is ready to make another push with I Want Everything, their first full-length record. On Saturday, they'll play a show at Kefi, 2012 Eastwood Road, to celebrate the new album (9 p.m. doors, 10 p.m. show).

There's nothing exactly earth-shattering on I Want Everything - in most respects the band opts for a straight-ahead rock sound, with solid, unflashy progressions that allow plenty of room for Reiff to explore the landscape of her vocals, which range from powerhouse ululations to a confessional croon, often crossing over into some Gwen Stefani-style sass.

There's a dynamic here, with Reiff belting out the rockers while showing more nuance in the slower tracks.

Listen up at http://labelingdeloris.com, and you can also hear the band on a local music show at 10 p.m. Thursday on Z 107.5 FM.