"This duo's debut full-length balances a soulful, feminine power that recalls Scout Niblett and a drummer who coldly demands dymanic shifts with almost electronic precision. It's an earnest tug-of-war.
~Spin
The excellent "Night of the Crickets," where great swipes of serrated guitar slash across Nicole Barille's gooey vocals. The absolute antidote to all those shrinking violets we've been big upping lately.
~ Rolling Stone.com
"Rabbit" from mr. Gnome's debut full-length, Deliver This Creature, pulls a heckuva lot of noise out of a small hat, pretty much just Sam Meister's tribal drums and the reverberating vocals and sludgily atmospheric guitar fills of Nicole Barille.
~Pitchfork
The finesse of merging sharp and smooth sounds seems almost effortless. Nicole Barille's bellowing voice rips through each song with audacious intensity. Her thundering guitar and Sam Meister's pounding drums are equally as acerbic and loud. Their simple but substantial instrumentation enhances the weightiness of Mr. Gnome's macabre poetry.
~Amplifier Magazine
Boy does this Ohio duo make a lot of noise. Such is the overwhelming nature of the twosome's aggressive-yet-beautiful sound.
~Paste Magazine
Breathy femme vocals waft airily through ethereal soundscapes. Surges of jagged hard-rock guitars come out of nowhere, shake things up and disappear again. Boxy rhythms trip and hop, connecting disparate pieces of sound. Disembodied vocals float above churning snare rattles. Something weird and wonderful is going on in Cleveland.
~LA Weekly
Barille and Meister play music that can be heavier than heavy metal but also atmospheric and beautiful. Each song ends breathlessly, with intensity, on that line between pleasure and pain.
~VenusZine
Deliver This Creature is the latest magnificently twisted musical fruit sprung from the loins of Cleveland-based clamorbrats, mr. Gnome. One is liable to hear artifacts of PJ Harvey, Bjork, and Blonde Redhead.
~My Old Kentucky Blog
I'm really glad that I got to catch your show in Chicago! You guys were great. Your sound is really different (but in a good way-not like "Oh you should meet my friend, she has a great personality") I hope the rest of your tour goes well and we see you again here!
heard "Pirates" on the Paste sampler, and I can't get your haunting voice out of my head. I'm visiting Austin and couldn't find the album anywhere (even at Waterloo!), so I finally broke down and bought it online, which I never do.
I love the cd! I haven't taken it out of my cd player since friday night. It will probably stay there for quite awhile. The show at Ruby's was fantastic. I can't wait to see Mr.Gnome again.
dirty dirty little gnomes- wait till i get my hands on you- you're both getting your mouths washed out with soap and i'm taking back all the nice new socks and underwear i got you for your birthdays if you can't learn to behave on myspace. I do believe some spankings are in order- i'll be bringing Mr.Smacks to our next 'get together'. my goodness!
you guys are quite possibly the 2nd sexiest band alive (next to the dewy cox band, of course. ) anybody ever tell you that you remind them of evanescence? uncanny! whats up with this weekend btw?
dude. i totally missed your cleveland appearance eh? i had every intention of going and somehow forgot. god what an asshole. anyway i miss you! xxxooo --Sent from my Helio
*gonna have to leave a message on your comments thx to "technical" hoo-ha's.yeah,astoria, home of the goonies! about 2 hours away from portland. next time you are through p-town, we will be living there and you can stay with us-anytime. hope to make it to clevo this fall-i know casey would love to visit home. if we do, and you are around, lets meet up and do whatever it is that people do when they meet up. :)all my best! a.
nice show the other night...glad we got to see you...it's been awhile...and clint is loving it, listening to you all the time...so i think it will be easier for me to get him to come to a show from now on!!! and sorry Nicole, i thought i already introduced you to him, but he said i didn't...i'm not too good at that stuff!! see you soon!!
