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For a band with just two members, Mr. Gnome sure crank up a lot of sound. Drummer Sam Meister powerfully hammers down loud, heavy rhythms as singer-guitarist Nicole Barille churns out distorted chords while floating her ghostly vocals over everything. The Cleveland duo are too weird and arty to be considered metal, but sonic landslides like "Slow Side," from their 2009 album, Heave Yer Skeleton, are too cathartically pulverizing to be lumped in with the work of lightweight indie rockers. And yet, for all of the sound and fury of tracks like "Plastic Shadow," Mr. Gnome have a distinctly pretty, softer side as they mix in dreamily febrile interludes among the savage riffage. This particular juxtaposition of light and darkness is quite unusual, especially the way such songs as "Spain" unfold with interstellar echoes bouncing among the hazy corridors of Meister's keyboards and Barille's trapped-at-the-bottom-of-a-well vocals. Mr. Gnome are still fairly obscure on this coast, but Heave Yer Skeleton was one of last year's most impressively original releases. - Falling James, LA Weekly

 "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

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