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"Unlike most debuts, With Me gives listeners more than a few gems to last until the band really figures things out; it is a gem of an album that makes you wonder why many bands take 3-4 records to produce this level of quality. Frontman and co-founder Finn Parnell heads up the songwriting department, in addition to providing equally fiery and emotional falsetto vocals...Siberian confidently marches through lush guitar-driven atmospherics and unique pop compositions that give indie a new dimension." - KEXP
"With Me is a near perfect balance of Indie grassroots and pop melodies." - Alternative Press
"While gentrification consumes Seattle like a cancer, it's nice to know the city's music scene has remained, so far, intact. The best exemplifier of Jet City's musical health is the young foursome Siberian...Their debut LP is nothing short of spectacular. Don't be fooled by the oft spacey and shimmering guitars; the 11-song collection winds, bends and sometimes drifts between gentle and brutal approaches. It's at its best when swerving within carefully conceived and frequent outbursts of torrential sonic power. The bombast is never completely devastating though." - Seattle PI
Seattle’s Siberian plays indie pop that’s beautiful and muscular, gliding easily between shimmering heights and glittering angularity. The fact that Siberian has only one album...under its belt is surprising given the confidence that shines through. - Portland Tribune
"Siberian exhibit a cohesiveness and musicality that most other self-styled indie rock groups take several years and releases to achieve, offering a welcome respite from bands that seem to graze from the same indie pop pasture." - The Stranger
When listening to Siberian, it's possible you might think to yourself for just a moment, "Have I heard this before?" The Seattle band makes comfortable, familiar indie rock, with reverb-ed, glacier-like guitars that fill up the vistas and valleys. Meanwhile, Finn Parnell's impressionistic lyrics are drawn out over long, sustained vocal notes…It's this combination of dramatic grandeur and friendly accessibility that makes Siberian's music so effective. – Portland Mercury
Siberian, though apparently an archetypal indie band, are far from superfluous even on the shoegazer-saturated Eastside, as they actually have some serious songwriting substance amid their well-worn aesthetics. Siberian’s debut full-length, last year’s With Me, is also with Radiohead: thick with the overthinking alienation and questioning vocals of that band’s first two records, but buffed with Interpol’s metropolis sheen, talkative bass and melodramatic dynamics. Remote arpeggios drown in crafted sheets of chord play; bustling beats crave both dance floor and dorm room. Defying its title, With Me is a lonesome record, but comforting too — evoking the night of the breakup next to an open fire…this is about as good as melodic, under-the-radar rock gets. – LA Weekly
It's a bit weird that the first few notes to ring out from Seattle-based indie-rock buzz band Siberian's MySpace instantly recall Band of Horses' "Funeral." The similarities stop there, though. In fact, Siberian frontman Finn Parnell recalls the weirdly upturned, arty vocal stylings of Figurines' Christian Hjelm or lauded prod wiz John Vanderslice far more than the reverb-laden wail of BOH's Ben Bridwell. And the music is vaguely spooky—think folkie atmospherics and electronic washes of noise over pop-rock groundwork—which is not to rob it of its catchiness (some of the songs verge on Radiohead- or even Killers-esque melodrama, for chrissakes). Any way you slice it, Siberian's pretty eclectic as far as Northwest indie goes. – Willamette Week
"The debut release from Seattle-based quartet Siberian represents that rare breed of first album that shows not only the band's future potential, but also an actual mastery of production and composition. Too often up-and-coming bands are stifled by a lack of confidence and creativity when they get to studio, resulting in underwhelming and disengaging albums that do little more than replicate their live performances. Siberian alternatively gives us With Me, a collection of 11 songs that are as fully realized and compelling as anything yet to be released this year... it is clear that Siberian is soon to be launched out of the Seattle underground and into the realm of indie mainstays. There is not a single song on With Me that is not inventive, catchy and all around well produced, and as debut albums go, this is second to none." - The Justice
"With Me demonstrates a depth of musicianship, songwriting, and attention to craft so rarely achieved on a debut — sometimes not even reached after two or three albums into a band’s career." - Three Imaginary Girls
"Perfect fall release to comfortably make the year's best-of list...Outstanding debut...one of the most promising records I have heard this year." - Transform Online
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With Me - CD 2007
Hey Celestial! - CDEP 2007
