Quiet By Ten

King 5 Best Local Band in Western Washington nominee in 2008 and 2009
Nominee for best independent album in the Northwest in 2008
Charted out at #13, #16, & #20 on college radio stations in the Northwest
Played 70 concerts in 30 months on the West Coast
Trained at the Contemporary Music Center (Martha’s Vineyard, MA)
Featured twice in “quiet shorts” (Seattle Art Magazine)
Article in Response Magazine
Featured in Shifted Sound "Best of 2008" Podcast

SHARED THE STAGE WITH:
David Bazaan
This Providence
Surrogate
Ascetic Junkies
Ruth
The Hey Day
Endeverance
Brier Rose
Sight Vs. Sound
Val Emmich
The Whispertown 2000
El Ten Eleven
Berry
Keaton Simmons
Will Dailey
New Heights
Cavalier
My Paper Camera
Wimbleweather

IN OUR OWN WORDS:
Have you ever had a song be so important to you that you couldn’t imagine your life
without it? I certainly have. Whether it was “In my life” by the Beatles or “Still fighting it”
by Ben Folds, these songs have been like a soundtrack to my life.
I have been a musician all of my life and am currently the lead singer
of a critically successful band I started in 2007 - Quiet by Ten. Over the past two years
we've put out two albums, gone on two west coast tours, charted at #13 on college radio,
played over fifty shows and learned a lot in the process.
The band is something I feel very strongly about because we have a message people
need to hear. Our songs search for truth. We dig deep into the soil of life. In our world
where hopelessness seems to steep from every street corner, we are a band that sings
about hope.
-Jeremy Anderson (lead singer)

REVIEWS:
"Excellent album from Seattle pop purveyors
Given the sheer volume of “competent” pop and rock bands that fly into the Americana UK review mailbox it is difficult for unknown bands or artists to stand out from the crowd. Press releases use hyperbole (“Quiet By Ten sounds like The Beatles, Ben Folds…Bob Dylan"!!!) that can be laughable or cringeworthy. Of course the reviewer will listen to the album (really) but at times the experience is akin to a routine such as waking up, abluting and dressing without the brain being engaged more than is absolutely necessary.
So it was with Quiet By Ten, pleasant, inoffensive, next please. However, as sometimes happens, repeated plays revealed hidden layers, musically, a wealth of well arranged songs, instrumentation and odd sounds. Gradually I came to love aspects of this album and have played it to death over the past week or so,
Lyrically this could be a “concept album” about the titular monster village which starts off as a whimsical fantasyland but ends up as a darker symbol of a wasted nation. Despite the childlike structure of the opening song the lyrics are Grimm like…

“Way down in Monster Village there's a park of dark brown grass,
where the Headless Horseman beats the ground with a lash.
The children they are cautious, they walk around in pairs,
cause that's what you do when you go down there.”

The village is revisited on the song “North” towards the end of the album. A brooding, X files type piano motif introduces another fairytale type song concerning the murder of a toyman bringing hope to the village, however, despite his death the sun continues to rise and his message of hope lives on. If this sounds a bit twee, psychedelic or Tenacious D daft, don’t worry, the band carry it off.

In between there are some sparkling gems. “Blue Eyed Girl” is a great pop song, Bydsish (or Pettyesque, you decide). “Penny Rogers” starts off as an acoustic lament for a woman abused by her father and losing her faith. Again there is a message of hope in the refrain and towards the end of the song as they proclaim “The Sun is so Bright on You” the band play with cymbals crashing and keyboards swelling to create the aural equivalent of a sunrise. Indeed there are several moments of well-arranged symphonic rock here which recall at times the Flaming Lips. Jeremy Anderson (songwriter, guitarist and vocalist) has a similar strained, will he or won’t he manage it, aspect to his vocals as that of Wayne Coyne’s. At other times the band do evoke such as the Beatles (Empty Coffin) or simply produce an excellent pop song (Simplicity). To cap it all there’s an excellent “hidden” song (which is a bugger to cue up on the CD player).

So overall a bit of a find and a definite recommendation. I give it 9 out of 10 stars!"
- Paul Kerr (www.americana-uk.com)

"Quiet By Ten's Monster Village is an album that sneaks up on you with it's catchiness and stays with you way past the final upward chord progression has faded out. Well worth checking out! 4 out of 5 stars."
- Shelby Miller (Host, Shifted Sound)

"I have worked here for two years and Quiet By Ten brought more people than I have ever seen here. We were packed out!”
(- Lyons Den Concert Promoter)

"Quiet By Ten have a quirky and positive individuality that help them surface