For the past five years, ROCKWIRED.COM has boasted a one-of-a-kind, online musical reportage. Not only has the independently published venture gained international notoriety, but it has also given LUSH some of the best conversation of his life. “I guess that is why anyone would really want to do something like this. No one really thinks about how hard a good conversation is to come by and with ROCKWIRED I feel blessed.”
JANUARY 25, 2010
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NiCOLE BARiLLE OF MR. GNOME
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NiCOLE BARiLLE OF MR. GNOME
TALKS TO ROCKWiRED
ABOUT THEiR LATEST CD HEAVE YER SKELETON
WORKiNG WiTH SAM MEiSTER
AND STAYiNG WEiRD AND GROUNDED
MR. GNOME’S music is like the ocean and its big-blue, endless mama-drama. Melodies and high-swelling vocals waver at monumental heights and sometimes it’s chilling what can come crashing—the musical equivalent of bubbles, light, foam and all. But you find yourself pulled too, even dragged at moments, with the rolling undertow of guitar loops and drums, to somewhere you’re not sure you’ve ever been. Always moving, always spinning, you surprisingly end up floating on your back, cloud gazing. NICOLE BARILLE’s vocals have been described as “ethereal,” “haunting,” “echoing,” “keening,” “howling,” and “bellowing.” Her guitar playing, coupled with SAM MEISTER’s drumming, is layered and complex; yet they maintain a freshness, almost an innocence, as the name MR. GNOME might imply. Innocence: not as in chimes, bells and nursery rhymes. But innocence: maybe more like an attitude of novice, of discovery, of, “Look, this is what we are doing now. Let’s try it out. Let’s see what happens. Let’s grow.” (READ MORE)