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Can You Still Look Adorable

by Arthur Yoria

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Tony Tuthill My FAVORITE! Also. The STAR TREK Cartoon version on YouTube that deals with the Enterprise being ambushed by the Gorn and the tragedy that befalls Captain Kirk, is pretty darn good too. Favorite track: It's Now Something Else.
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You think I'm incapable / don't you? You think I'm sometimes slow I've got a brand new reason to throw it all away We can make this easy / or we can do this you're way Either way, you'll hear me Did you think you could just walk away? You're not that collected / I'm not that afraid I crawled across a damaged floor / for you I think I even swept a little I've got a brand new reason to throw it all away We can make this easy / or we can do this you're way Either way, you'll hear me Did you think you could just walk away? You're not that collected / I'm not that afraid We can make this easy / or we can do this you're way Either way, you'll hear me Did you think you could just walk away? You're not that collected / I'm not that afraid
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Say Hello 03:45
Pupil swells in sin / adoring a picture Bending waist let's in / the view is new Isolate but Hold your breath until you feel it Tighten up now, close your eyes And tell yourself she's only just begun Then move slow, take a breath and start again Smells like something clean / over and under Liquid slowly speaks / in native tongue Isolate but Hold your breath until you feel it Tighten up now, close your eyes And tell yourself she's only just begun Then move slow, take a breath and start again And you'll know / when she knows If you notice the trembling below Introduction slips into light conversation Sinks into slight shouts then escalates And escalates but Hold your breath until you feel it Tighten up now, close your eyes And tell yourself she's only just begun Then move slow, take a breath and start again
3.
The feathers hit / they strike the bell That wakes a newborn when he's sleeping well The mirrors miss / they half resist As they go by / they say something that sounds like it rhymes In the end, there is a middle / intermission's over Can't you tell? It's now something else Take a different breath / this could make some sense Mouth the words that can't be spoken Indirect, innocent, inexistent / nothing here but smoke Follow please and take the lead Raise your fist but lower it to make note of it In the end, there is a middle / intermission's over Can't you tell? It's now something else Take a different breath / this could make some sense Mouth the words that can't be spoken In the end, there is a middle / intermission's over Can't you tell? It's now something else Take a different breath / this could make some sense Listen, can't you tell? It's now something else Take a different breath / this could make some sense Mouth the words that can't be spoken
4.
It doesn't matter if it shows It doesn't matter if you'll never know Have you ever found yourself playing make-believe When no one's home? In my fall and in my reach In my words before they speak In my best routines / you'll be with me It doesn't matter if you see It doesn't matter if you don't see me Have you ever found yourself laughing alone When no one's home? No one's home In my fall and in my reach In my words before they speak In my best routines / you'll be with me It doesn't matter if it shows It doesn't matter if you'll never know Have you ever found yourself dancing real slow When no one's home? In my fall and in my reach In my words before they speak In my best routines / you'll be with me In my fall and in my reach In my words before they speak In my best routines / you'll be with me
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Ectomorph 03:34
Did your hairdo finally do what you wanted it to do When you woke up in the afternoon? Did your hairdo finally do what you wanted it to do When you woke up in the afternoon? You look a bit older Can you still jump in the air? You look a bit older Come down in time with the snare? You look a bit older And can you still look adorable? You look like you've gained some weight Don't you find it difficult to sleep when you're alone Like the way you did before they told you that you'd never be alone? Did your hairdo finally do what you wanted it to do When you woke up in the afternoon? Did your hairdo finally do what you wanted it to do When you woke up in the afternoon? You look a bit older Can you still jump in the air? You look a bit older Come down in time with the snare? You look a bit older And can you still look adorable? You look like you've gained some weight Don't you find it difficult to sleep when you're alone Like the way you did before they told you that you'd never be alone? You look a bit older You look a bit older You look a bit older You look like you've gained some weight

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The Austin Chronicle - March 14 2003
SXSW Picks and Sleepers

March 14, 2003:

ARTHUR YORIA: This Houstonian has been slogging along in the humid trenches for years now. The former Jeepney released an EP, can You Still Look Adorable, last fall, and it's an elegant pop masterpiece that has garnered much-deserved praise from local critics. Yoria's high tenor is often compared to Jeff Buckley's, and pedal steel player Matt Rhodes sounds right at home on a pop record. (Spill, 8pm) -- Melanie Haupt



Houston Press - Volume 14, Issue 36 September 5-11 2002

Arthur Yoria
can you still look adorable (K Oso)
BY JOHN NOVA LOMAX
john.lomax@houstonpress.com
Words like "sublime" get thrown around a lot in music reviews, a little too recklessly, if you ask this writer. The overall effect is to cheapen the
adjective's value when something comes around that truly measures up. Elegant modern pop-rocker Arthur Yoria's newest EP is one of the few (local or national) CDs that does. Hell, go ahead and let it be said: Yoria defines sublime.

The five songs here all sound familiar even at first listen, in the sense that ex-Jeepney Yoria is not about ostentation at all. He's less about originality of form than he is about filling the same old pop mold with sterling content. There's nothing flashy here -- it's all about the cool, and nobody does the cool better than Yoria and company. It's not just Yoria's vocals and lyrics that shine here; he's also assembled one of the state's most accomplished young bands. Drummer Ilya Kolozs and bassist Dwayne Casey (both also ex-Jeepneys) are content to stay unobtrusively in the background, but headphone listening reveals a latticelike intricacy to their interplay.

Pedal steel player Matt Rhodes comes to the fore more obviously, and it's hard to think of a young musician in Houston who's doing more to further his instrument stylistically. In his hands (and with his feet and knees), the steel is proved capable of so much more than simulated weeping on C&W numbers (not that there's anything wrong with that). Here, it functions more as a lead guitar at times and as a keyboard at others. Sometimes it's just another layer in the mix, and elsewhere it's at the very razor's edge of the sound. In his hands, the pedal steel becomes solid silver, and it's his playing that gives the band its
trademark sheen.

For his part, Yoria's crystalline high tenor provides insanely addictive melodies and lyrics that are catchy enough to rob you of sleep. On the EP, almost every song is better than the last, which is saying something considering the opener, "A Brand New Reason," is potent enough. The band rocks out through about five gears on "It's Now Something Else," and the solemnly cinematic "My Best Routines" will have you directing videos for it inside your head.

All in all, a grand EP, if such a thing isn't a contradiction in terms. Here's hoping Yoria can release a full-lengther of equal power and of the same quality soon. Here's also hoping that the world outside Houston will sit up and take note.



Performing Songwriter - Volume 10, Issue 65 November 2002
Top 12 DIY Reviews

Hints of Yoria's home can be heard on his five-song EP. The artist/songwriter weaves dance oriented beats with acoustic strumming and subtle pedal steel on "Say Hello." Electronically-produced rhythms come up again on "It's Now Something Else," and the pedal steel reappears on "My Best Routines." Yoria's jazzy pop melodies have a free-flowing quality of a Jeff Buckley tune, while his impassioned vocals deliver both emotional cries and sensitive whispers. Well-written lyrics are smart and sometimes tender, except on "Ectomorph," where he takes an evil stab at a presumably self-conscious woman: "You look a bit older / You look like you've gained some weight." Ouch.

-Heather Johnson



Splendid Magazine- 9/9/2002

Arthur Yoria (vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion) is the driving force behind this four-song EP, but he has plenty of help. Matt Rhodes joins him on keyboards and pedal steel, Ilya Kolozs on drums and percussion, and Dwayne Casey on bass guitar. The foursome delivers a polished sound that won't leave a bad taste in your mouth. Yoria's vocals give way to the urgency and vigor you might remember from Jeff Buckley's tenor croon, while the rhythm section shows no intention of missing a beat. The opener, "A Brand New Reason", begins with a single guitar and whispered lyrics that are all too quickly overpowered by the one note, one chord, strum-upon beat-a-thon that makes so many indie-rock songs mighty. The single note pouncing offsets confessional, emotion-ridden lyrics; in fact, each of the EP's five songs embraces the conflict between confessional, breathy vocals and a steady, catchy beat. The musical backdrop begs you to bounce in your seat, while the lyrics urge you to sing along. For example, in "Say Hello", Yoria sounds like the American cousin of Cranberries vocalist Dolores O'Riordan, while the bassline sustains a steady drone from verse to chorus. Yoria revives the intimacy of the sliding, breathy vocals near the end, and with the dance beat lessening, more attention is drawn to his inviting tonality. "It's Now Something Else" leads off with Pink Floyd-inspired vocal delivery, its wavy, echoing guitar chords suggesting an extended space voyage. Soon, in keeping with the multi-textured sound, the rhythm section turns hard-edged, and Yoria's voice bounds over the beat like a skipping stone.

The world may be too full of twenty-something and thirty-something male singer/songwriters with too much ego in their rock, but Yoria isn't one of them. His hard work on Can You Still Look Adorable is evident -- the beats are calculated and pleasing, and the lyrics are fresh and edgy. If you think that the allure of pop music can't be combined with well-developed songwriting, prepare to be defied.

-- Chrissy Johnson

credits

released May 1, 2002

Ilya Janos Kolozs-drums, perc.
Dwayne Casey-bass
Matt Rhodes-pedal steel, keys
Arthur Yoria-guitar, vocals, keys, perc.

all songs by Arthur Yoria
produced by Arthur Yoria
recorded by Marco Saenz and Kevin Griffin
mixed by Marco Saenz
mastered by Jerry Tubb

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Arthur Yoria Houston, Texas

Arthur Yoria is a Colombian/American singer/songwriter/producer that has toured extensively in the U.S, Europe and South America. His Bedroom Pop songs have been used in commercials for Domino's Pizza, Arizona Jeans and been featured in the major motion pictures, National Lampoon's Adam & Eve and Breaking Dawn and the network hit television shows The O.C. and Felicity. ... more

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