Like many a paisley pop band -- hey, they put this out on the Paisley Pop label, so they'd better be prepared to be branded with the label themselves -- Girls Say Yes boasts a stew of influences. There's 1960s psychedelia and folk-rock, of course, but also girl groups (felt mostly in the backup vocals), ringing Byrds/R.E.M. guitars, Lou Reed, soul, and even cheesy 1980s synth pop. There's nothing wrong with that; just don't steel yourself for anything that will shift your axis of being. The songs embrace a similarly mixed clutch of themes: psychic displacement, spaced-out psychedelic musing, alienated loneliness, and cranky carps at the institution of marriage. It's the psychedelic-isms and the Lou Reed-isms that work best, like "Another Life," with its late-'60s psychedelic Brit-pop trimmings of underwater vocals and backward guitars; "You're Coming Down," which has something of the feeling of early-'70s Pink Floyd, but with female vocals; and "Wonder Guy," which matches shaky Reed-esque singing to folk-rockin' guitars.
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by Richie Unterberger
Track Listing
Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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1 | Girls Say Yes | 04:08 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
2 | Girls Say Yes | 03:06 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
3 | Girls Say Yes | 04:35 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
4 | Girls Say Yes | 03:41 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
5 | Girls Say Yes | 00:27 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
6 | Girls Say Yes | 05:34 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
7 | Girls Say Yes | 03:58 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
8 | Girls Say Yes | 02:32 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
9 | Girls Say Yes | 05:05 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
10 | Girls Say Yes | 02:55 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
11 | Girls Say Yes | 03:55 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
12 | Girls Say Yes | 05:51 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
13 | Girls Say Yes | 04:06 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
14 | Girls Say Yes | 05:59 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Girls Say Yes | 05:26 | SpotifyAmazon |