" style="color: 000000; font-size: 0px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: none; font YOU HAVE THE right to expect a well-crafted, meticulously designed product from a band consisting of two academically-trained composers.
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(CALL YOUR LOCAL COLLEGE RADIO STATION TO REQUEST "WHO CAN'T SAY YES.")Who Can't Say Yes. (26:19)
1. I Love You, Blowtorch Eyes
2. Lieutenant
3. You Can't Change a Thing
4. The Clandestine
5. It's My Way of Staying Connected
6. Monarch
7. Prairie BurnBUY THE CD online at Tonevendor , CD Baby , Disk Union (Japan) , Amazon.co.jp , & iTunes. at local record stores: Waterloo Records (Austin, TX), End of an Ear Records (Austin, TX)
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"It feels like warm pajamas, like the soundtrack to a movie about your life, something you want to listen to when you’re driving at night."- ( Slak's Index )
"She Sir has obvious antecedents (Slowdive and Ride among them), but its sublime shoegaze is far more complex than a carbon copy: buried within the layers of delay are careful arrangements that, like the greatest of pointillist paintings, coalesce into a slightly blurred portrait of mutable beauty."- ( The Onion )
Top EPs of 2006: No. 2 - "Who Can't Say Yes."- ( Stay Nobody )
Best Of 2006 Addendum: She Sir's Who Can't Say Yes. "...drop everything and run, don't walk. You must own Who Can't Say Yes. The EP is a superlative document of '90s-style American indie shoegaze the likes of which you haven't heard since the first Lilys full-length In The Presence Of Nothing. Yeah, we said it."- ( Clicky Clicky Music )
Best Albums of 2006: No. 11 "...this is what would've happened if shoegaze was around when Bach was growing up. 'Intricately crafted' doesn't even begin to describe it. Every sound has its counterpoint, every note is in place."- ( Heartache with Hard Work )
"With the subtle hooks and deep atmospherics of Who Can't Say Yes, She Sir drop pop music to an even vaguer level than Loveless. She, Sir beautifully fractures music for the next generation of dream-pop connoisseurs."- ( 3hive )
"She Sir bring verve back to common sound."- ( The Daily Texan )
"Extremely avant-garde and artistic, and in many ways still ahead of its time. She Sir take one step beyond traditional noise rock and make shimmering, hauntingly beautiful arrangements that not only emphasize great precision, but also move in unpredictable, often pleasantly surprising ways."- ( Faronheit )
"She Sir have one of the most modernly unique sounds I have heard lately ...incredible ingenuity and a fitting flow. She Sir's music seems to be oddly engaging. The EP contains a diverseness that should express great attention and detail to the music at hand."- ( Obscure Sound )
"Delicately harmonized vocals and transparent guitar hooks that rarely backslide into simply leaden melodies. Who Can't Say Yes finds She Sir's melodic rock unhurried atmospherics and sharp melodies further adorned by layers of instrumentation. ...A band happy with an uncommon melodious minimalism."- ( Sabas.Judas )
"...you can hear the detail, not just the wash of different sounds and layers: something that so, so many of the first-wave shoegaze bands just couldn't pull off. They didn't know how to. These guys do."- ( Let's Kiss And Make Up... )