Band Members: Russell Karloff.
M. Grusha.
Rick Vehslage.
James Vehslage.
past/guest musicians*: Christopher McGuire (John Vanderslice, Kid Dakota, 12 Rods, Quruli)
Don Curtis (Poison Control Center, Organ Donor)
Booking: Bueno Music Bureau, or
Jim Lyons at Auto Pilot Booking
Influences: The Eaves, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, Hum, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Cocteau Twins, The Stone Roses, Verve, The Beach Boys, Swervedriver, Low, Primal Scream, The Smiths, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Zombies, Pale Saints, Sebadoh, The Velvet Underground, Bjork, 13th Floor Elevators, Magnetic Fields. Shoegazer, dreampop, post-punk.
Sounds Like: Coming into accordance with all these instruments and witnesses.
(CALL YOUR LOCAL COLLEGE RADIO STATION TO REQUEST "WHO CAN'T SAY YES.")
"Who Can't Say Yes." cd/ep
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 Burn
YOU HAVE THE right to expect a well-crafted, meticulously designed product from a band containing two academically-trained composers.
Under the moniker of She, Sir, M. Grusha and Russell Karloff experiment with unconventional guitar tunings and technique, and generally obsess over the aesthetics of songwriting. By combining solid songwriting with carefully constructed layers of sound and unhurried vocals --along with their education and background in Classical and Contemporary music composition-- the band achieves a sound that is unmistakably all their own and may just prove that modern indie rock yet contains undiscovered territory.
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"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." -- Sean (3hive)
"She, Sir bring verve back to common sound." -- Dane (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." -- Mike Mineo (Obscure Sound)
"Delicately harmonized vocals and transparent guitar hooks that rarely backslide into simply leaden melodies. Who Canīt 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)
"...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." -- Charles Olney (Heartache with Hard Work)
"...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." -- Colin Clark (Let's Kiss And Make Up...)
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