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"'Move In Tight': With their leggy,
go-go-booted singer smacking her Farfisa and purring/shouting demands,
this
Phoenix outfit turns a geeky garage schtick into white heat."
- SPIN Magazine, "Songs You
Need To Download Now," 3/07
"With their fuzzed out vocals, reverb-soaked organs and frantic beats,
The
Love Me Nots are a delightfully trashy throwback to the '60s. This
Phoenix-based band brings back Detroit retro-garage rock in a big way. Irresistable."
-
Billy Zero, XM Radio Radar
Report, Featured Artist Review, 4/07
"[T]he Phoenix-based Love Me Nots sound as if they've been stashed in a
time capsule since the swinging '60s. The foursome is fronted by
Farfisa-slinging singer Nicole; its debut CD, 'In Black & White'
features
high-profile production by White Stripes engineer Jim Diamond,
captur[es] the
band's old-school hooks and libidinous energy. Even better,
Diamond
leaves ample room in the mix for guitarist Michael Johnny Walker's sizzling
six-string workouts. From the Animals-esque riffage of "Alley" to
the Greenhornes-ish "Break My Heart," the Love Me Nots are intent on
shaking a tail feather in 2007, and we're betting you won't be able to
stop
yourself from doing the same when you hear them."
- Jonathan Perry, The Boston Globe, "6 Pop
acts
to watch in 2007," 1/14/07
"A meaty slab of badass '60s garage
'n' roll power drenched in Farfisa organ sauce and dredged through
tasty
blues bread crumbs... (I feel like I should add a "beeyatch!" here
for effect.) Singer-organist Nicole implores listeners not to break her
heart
but listen to her voice the perfect admixture of sass,
sex, and
soul and it's clear who's the heartbreaker. Boys and girls alike
are
guaranteed to
swoon when she sings the raunch rocker 'Alley.'"
- Duncan Scott Davidson, The San
Francisco Bay Guardian, "Weekly Picks," 2/14/07,
"There is very little about Nicole Laurenne that is forgettable. The
way
she snarls when she sings. The way she can turn a request to cuddle
into a
drill sergeant command. She can melt men with a smile or puncture their
lungs
with her stiletto go-go boots. She can play the piano like she's making
good on
a death threat. And she does it all with style -- a checkered splash of
black
and white. She is a spy goddess. In fact, in public she often looks
like a
forgotten Warhol muse with a subtle hint of 'fuck you.' Laurenne
plays a
Farfisa, a slim '60s-era portable organ that drives The Love Me Nots'
throwback
rock. In Laurenne's hands -- or, more appropriately, "hand," since
she often uses her left paw to choke her microphone for all it's worth
-- the
little organ sounds like it was meant to be pumped over the P.A. at
a
haunted surf-side shack. On the band's debut disc, it washes over
tracks
like "Cry," haunting the reverb ballad's melody lines and
occasionally competing with Laurenne's very serious pipes for
attention. On
"Come On Over" and "Move In Tight," two songs would-be mods
will be stripping to for years, Laurenne plays it like a circus
calliope --
except, of course, she wants to lure you to your sweaty doom. Either
way, people
instantly fall in love."
- Jeff Inman, "The Spy Who Loved Me," Las
Vegas City Life, 7/07
"Nicole
Laurenne knows how to create a
convincingly groovy, 60s-style mood on the Love Me
Nots debut CD,
In
Black & White. As Christina Nunez lays down a shadowy bass line on
'Break
My Heart,' Laurenne coats everything with a sheen of spooky, circusy
keyboards.
Laurenne never loses her cool, though, even as guitarist Michael Johnny
Walker
surrounds her with searing, leering fuzz-garage riffs on 'Mine'
and
'Move in Tight.' [T]hey come up with some good hooks and neat twists to
the
Pandoras-meets-Zombies formula."
- Falling James, L.A. Weekly, "Pick Of The
Night," 4/07
"Arizona's
Love Me Nots recorded In Black
& White here in Detroit at Jim Diamond Ghetto Recorders..
[a]
tumble of
vintage organ and pep siphoned from 1960s rock and
roll.. brief
blasts of
fevered rock and R&B with hints of danger thanks to the
vocalist
Nicole's supervixen throat tickle. ('It's just
a matter of
time/Gonna
tow this line/Until he's mine all mine!') The Love Me Nots even
offer a
spiders-crawling-on-my-face mood piece with 'Cry'; it recalls Jefferson
Airplane, or at least Mazzy Star."
- Johnny Loftus, Music Editor, Detroit
Metro Times,
1/24/07
"'The Next
Big Thing Debate,' one of the
panels on the last day of the CMJ 2006 Music Marathon, brought together
five
tastemakers who introduced artists that they think are poised to
generate
some big buzz. Panelist Jim Diamond shared 'Move In Tight,' a
Nuggets-y,
organ-heavy garage rock number by Phoenix's Love Me Nots."
- CMJ.com, "The Next Big
Thing Debate," 11/06
"Addictive
power pop is the flavour here, 60's garage/psych, swirling
organ, and plenty of fuzz...You can't resist being dragged in for
more!
Nicole and Christina both have that irresistable 'Avengers' Emma Peel
look,
giving the band a big bag of sex appeal to amplofy their groovy sound
and retro
rhythms..The extremely fabulous debut album is available
worldwide."
- Mojophenia (UK), 6/07
"Without fail, this record is a true inferno of garage classics. Wild,
but
stylish and accessible. For me, the record of the year!"
- Capone, Big
Shot Magazine (Germany), 6/07
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