Listen: Please Quiet Ourselves

By Alex Young on January 22nd, 2008

Please Quiet Ourselves are one of the most fascinating bands I’ve heard recently. With a sound similar to that of Broken Social Scene or Modest Mouse with a heavily sedated Issac Brock, the seven piece band create soft, beautiful, and quite passionate music. Oh, did we mention the Berkley, California based band range an age from 15 to 17 years old?

Please Quiet Ourselves creates a textured blanket of sound in a somewhat off-key, clumsy freak-pop manner lifted from Modest Mouse’s Building Nothing Out of Something aesthetic. Seven (and sometimes more) effervescent 15 to 16 year-old high schoolers from Berkeley, CA came together after Jojo Brandel wrote an original song for his 8th grade film project soundtrack.

When I first gave them a listen I was astonished that a band so young could create music so powerful and emotional. This is definitely a band to keep an eye on in the years to come.

Please Quiet Ourselves will be making several appearances during SXSW.

Check Out:
“Antibodies”
“The Light”

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