Demon And The Devotee, The

The Love Me Nots – The Demon and the Devotee
Reviewed by Sadie O., 6/10/11
Another load of top-notch garage rock, produced in Detroit (you can tell). Great punk-drenched female vocals, farfisa, fuzz/reverb/feedback, pounding drums – what’s not to love? Reminds me a bit of the Pretenders when they were still Punk, as well as pretty much the entire Nuggets catelog. Allow me to observe: Fuck Yeah.
1. 3:05 ***4/4 walking bassline, tinkling piano and feedback. Hard rock and roll, baby. And FUZZ.
2. 2:40 ***guitar chords, hard drum beats, killer reverb.
3. 3:15 ***interesting juxtaposition of solid guitar chords and farfisa plinkydings. Good energy
4. 3:18 **a bit unplugged, acoustic guitar and rather sweet vocals – 60’s pop (in a good way).
5. 2:36 ***snarling guitar, slow drum and tamborine, nicely pissed-off vocals.
6. 3:38 ***funky frug-a-gogo, bit of 80’s in the keyboard, and you can do the jerk to it. Nice, with lots of bad attitude.
7. 2:23 ***uptempo, lots of energy, danceable and poppy and peevish all at once.
8. 2:50 ***4/4 guitar chords and romantic rage. Yay!
9. 3:44 **subdued, slow, almost a bit Velvets, kinda creepy. Nice trumpet solo.
10. 2:34 ***uptempo rave-up, all instruments blazing. Great messy guitar solo.
11. 2:22 ***midtempo, solid drum beat, in praise of substance abuse. Yay!
12. 3:02 ***significant Byrds feel, kinda swingy and pretty. Vocal harmonies, even!