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What’s in a name? Sometimes, everything. In the case of Orlando band Please Be Kind, that unabashedly tender moniker is true, both to their mien and intent. No ironic twist or sardonic backhand here. Just a warm, inviting world of sweetly soft indie-pop dreams. I’m already checking to see if one-way tickets are available.
Please Be Kind have been around for more than a handful of years, but it’s their recent resurgence that’s especially worth watching. After some small pre-pandemic releases and then an extended hiatus, the group helmed by bandleader and songwriter TJ Perry (they/them) are back and in high gear, now gigging regularly and finally ready to release their first full-length album.
On Nov. 14, Please Be Kind will drop the Silver Lining LP. It’s a pop exercise in indie timelessness, with one foot each in dream pop and indie rock. The 10-song collection maximizes its tapestry with a bright blend of organic and electronic instruments and a palette that goes from acoustic (“Darling”) to fully electronic (“True Blue”). Mostly, however, the album is an effective amalgam that allows the soft, caressing melodies to take flight in vivid, prismatic strokes. It’s a sedate splendor that lies somewhere between Alvvays and Fear of Men that climaxes in songs like the perfect fuzz-pop effervescence of “Meteor Shower,” the twilight exhale of “Suburban Fever” and the synth glide of “Pink Parallax.”
Silver Lining will hit major streaming platforms on Nov. 14. But Orlando gets an early premiere the night before at Please Be Kind’s release show presented by Montgomery Drive at Stardust Video & Coffee (7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, $15), where they’ll perform alongside openers Sky Navy, Paracosm, Paperback Romance and Philos. Advance CD copies of Silver Lining can be scored at the gig for nonperishable donations to help local food banks.
This article appears in Nov. 12-18, 2025.
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