New Noise Magazine is pleased to bring forth the acoustic video premiere of “Please Don’t Tell” by The Exits. The track plays fluently and powerfully through it’s dynamic movement, really bringing a gratifying amount of atmosphere within its chord progressions. Take a listen below and find the track
“‘Please Don’t Tell’ doesn’t have a lot of lyrics. It’s basically a prayer. There’s only one direct theme, and that’s dishonesty in a relationship. But the song isn’t really about anything specific. It’s more of a feeling. I wrote it shortly after a friend of mine passed away from a drug overdose. ‘Please Don’t Tell’ is actually the name of a bar in the East Village [of Brooklyn], somewhere we hung out together. So the song came out of those feelings, along with my experience in a troubled relationship.
We gave the acoustic version a different flavor from the record. We locked into a hip hop/soul groove, very different from the swampy rock feel we laid down in the studio. We grew up playing a lot of groove music, and it’s fun to work in some of that influence. Reimagining songs and their arrangements is a great exercise. You can take the same tune and do it in almost any style – reggae, electro, metal – it’s simply the way you choose to dress up the song, so it’s fun to hear what it’s like with a different outfit on.”
