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Mr. Gnome
Deliver This Creature
2008 » El Marko
It’s hard, given the clanging, rockist aesthetic at work in Mr. Gnome’s music, to not compare this Cleveland duo to another Rust Belt yin-yang couple like the White Stripes. It’s hard, given the tendency of vocalist Nicole Barille to engage in breathy incantations atop Sam Meister’s occasional digital beats, to not compare Mr. Gnome to, say, Portishead. It’s hard, given Mr. Gnome’s delightfully thudding guitar work and propensity for diametrically opposed sonic elements – beauty vs. heaviness, oppressive volume vs. delicate dynamics – to not compare them to Jucifer. It’s hard, in other words, to wrap a band like Mr. Gnome up in a neat, reference-ready package for consumption. But that seems to be precisely the point. By jamming a suitcase full of often-contrasting elements into their sound, these two have gone and made an album that’s as quirky and individualistic as it is visceral and engaging.
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