You Can Be a Wesley

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You Can Be A Wesley began, like most good things, in a dimly lit basement. Born of books and boxes, guitars and cheap equipment, the Wesley’s struggled to make their first recordings in the spring of 2006 after meeting at Boston University.

The following summer they self-released the Feed the Moon, Starve the Sun EP to local acclaim, helping the Wesley’s build their fan base. The tracks resonated within the east-coast surf community, as studio 411 picked the EP’s title track for 2007’s Best Laid Plans surf film and SurfLine.com has since featured several of their songs.

In June of 2008 the Wesley’s recorded their debut album, Heard Like Us, straight to two-inch tape with Jeremy Mendicino of Pretty & Nice and recently printed it on a 700-copy limited vinyl run. Now with an LP under their belt, they can set their sights on their original goal: world domination.


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You can be a press clipping… ? (Haha, sorry)

“If May is the month in which you typically hunt down your hot summer jam — and you’re not big on Auto-Tune — a quartet of Boston University students (just a few weeks shy of graduation) who call themselves You Can Be a Wesley may have the answer. “Creatures,” the set-ending song the foursome played at T.T. the Bear’s on Friday night, incited much drunken dancing, with appreciative yelps and limbs flailing, by what seemed to be the band’s sizable posse. Despite their obvious bias, YCBAW’s intoxicated pals were onto something: “Creatures” is a hook-fraught love letter to the guitar-heavy, indie-rock greats of the early ’90s (Pavement et al.), but not in a tired way. The song builds up momentum via lead singer Saara Untracht-Oakner’s anthemic chorus, then slows down at the bridge, just before she erupts in a burst of wails.” - THE BOSTON PHOENIX