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| Phoenix New Times |
| "James Mulhern, guitarist/vocalist of local indie band What Laura Says Thinks and Feels, speaks of his first concert experience with pride. It was a Bon Jovi show, Mulhern was in the ninth row, and it was "pretty badass." The rest of the band has no qualms about listing the "skin flute" as one of the many instruments at which they're proficient. With that type of candor, it seems the fellas of What Laura Says Thinks and Feels have little to hide. And with a new management deal, a new album in the works, and a major tour on the horizon, they won't be able to hide if they try..." |
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| Flagstaff Live! |
| "The group’s style is a breezy mix of pop and rock with folky undertones. Picture Brian Wilson or Ben Folds divided into five and outfitted in logo-clad T-shirts. Guitarist James Mulhern says the group incorporates “Southern blues, a little bit of swamp buckets, sandy, Beach Boys, three-part and four-part harmony, sugar, ‘Oklahoma,’ Rogers and Hammerstein, classic core and the dirt between your toes.” |
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| Get Out |
| "A gorgeous 11-song album full of ethereal, atmospheric beauty, layered with Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies and melodies that make the band’s MySpace description of their sound — “old, wrinkled Indian mystics setting dandelions afloat into the western sky” — strangely accurate." |
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| Phoenix New Times |
| "Proficient crafters of falsetto harmonies atop sugar-sweet melodies and imaginative use of various percussion tools. Conversely, these five lads can also bang out Southern rock-infused compositions that would make even John Fogerty raise an eyebrow. With its spontaneous tempo changes and roving bubbles of musical optimism, this undeniably charming interpretation of indie-folk can surely melt even the coldest of hearts." |
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| Phoenix Art Space |
| " 'What Laura Says Thinks and Feels' upcoming album gives us all a breath of fresh musical air. The band focuses on producing a new sound, and something completely uncharacteristic of what would be considered mainstream in this country. “American radio music tends to let people down,” said bassist Mitch Freedom, and this album gives every indication that these guys are willing to step out of the box." |
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| Phoenix New Times Blog |
| "The band sent its self-titled debut record over to me, and it's certainly not like anything else I've heard going on around town. It's retro and psychedelic, but other than that it's in some category all its own." |
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| Tucson Weekly |
| "Songs like "Illustrated Manual" show off their Beach Boys-like harmonizing and Smiley Smile tinkering, while also drawing comparisons to the piano-based songs of Ben Folds Five and Queen, WLSTAF on this night played with a grittier, Bakersfield country-rock sound à la Gram Parsons." |
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