Unfortunately, patient it’s officially fall. Yeah, I know, it sucks to say. But, when one door closes, another opens, and who better to open the door to some laid-back, breezy tunes than Long Island’s own Post Nobles?

Started by siblings Denis and Kieran O’Leary, with friends Ricky Berotti and Andrew Knox, the Nobles released their first EP in April of this year, and have been making the rounds at local Boston bars like Copperfield’s, as well as New York clubs the Knitting Factory and Fat Baby. Their self-titled EP is an easygoing middle finger to the ever-closer cold grip of fall. Needless to say, this album will get you in the mood for a cold brew and a pool party, complete with floaties and weird Hawaiian shirts. I sat down with Denis, Kieran, and Ricky this past Fourth of July to get patriotic and talk about early stage rap groups, tribal dance parties, and sandwich fights.

AP: So, Denis, you and Kieran are brothers, how long did you guys all know each other before you formed the band?

Denis: We’ve known each other since we were little guys.
Ricky: I met them my sophomore year of high school, we didn’t start making any kind of musical things until about two years ago?

Kieran: Yeah, right around 2011.

AP: So were you guys in other bands throughout high school?

Denis: Well we played a lot of sports, and did some nerd things on the side.

Ricky: Yeah well they’re geniuses so they did nerd things, but it was a good time.

AP: What was the kind of founding moment when you all decided “hey we play instruments, we should be a band.”

Post Nobles: Well I think it started with School of Rock. We made a lot of raps, then we got down into garage rock stuff. And Windy Crankage

Molly Moltzen (manager and cookie-provider): Windy Crankage is their rap group.

AP: So what initially got you together?

Denis: Well originally I was playing the drums, and Ricky would come overand watched us practice, and we didn’t really realize we needed a bassist, so we said “alright Ricky, you can play the drums.” But yeah, I think I tried to play bass one day, and Kieran went ”no dude you do it like this,” so we just said, “fine, you do it then.”

Kieran: Andrews Block Party Band? That’s what we were called. All we did was play early 90s covers. I was playing bass, I was in my zone.
Ricky: And I think before Kieran and I went to college, we decided to start recording stuff, so we got to it and it sounded good so we kept going.

AP: So a lot of the songs you guys play live now you think you might have written as demos in your earlier days as a band?

PN: We’re just now starting to write new stuff as opposed to the stuff that we had a long time ago that we were just working on through the years. We probably have about 20 songs saved up, we write new stuff, but we still have a lot of old stuff.

AP: How did you decide on those 6 songs for the first EP out of all the ones you had lined up?

PN: We didn’t really think that one through when we put it together. It’s what we were feeling at the time. We recorded 9 songs and chose the best six out of those, and did it at Amanda’s Pennsylvania home. We set off fireworks and had tribal dance parties.

AP: How was recording?

PN: It was awesome, a lot of fun for a week, five days, whatever. We were doing it pretty quickly, didn’t know what we were doing, just went down there and tried to record, and got something out of it. We had our friend Austin mix, did a great job.

AP: So you guys have been together for the last 2 and a half years, how long have you been playing gigs?

PN: Since November. We got a call from our buddy Luke, and he asked us if we wanted to play a show with them in 2 days. This is before we were even thinking about playing live or anything. We had one day of practice, we went home and practiced, played the show, and that was really what got us going.

AP: How’d that show go?

PN: We played really well considering how much practice we had. We’ve only played ten shows on our journey so far we think, but there’s plenty more to come.

AP: I know you played a bunch in Boston this past year, and you played the Bitter End here in NY pretty recently, so you were sort of splitting your time between here and Boston. Now that Denis graduated are you going to focus more on New York?

PN: We’re all in NY, we;re gonna focus on here. We might do some stuff in November in Boston.

AP: You have a really chill sound, in that Beach Boys kind of surf rock thing. You see a lot of people trying to do pop punk, and solo singer songwriter stuff, what inspired the surf sound?

PN: We probably wont be a surf band for that long, we don’t think. I mean we make some surf stuff, but it’s really just whatever comes to the brain, it’s not really anything specific; it just sounds how it sounds. You know it will be us, but we won’t stick to any particular kind of song. We’ll just kinda make a song and tailor it to how it should sound. I mean, we took four days to record that EP.

AP: How do y’all go about starting a song and writing it ‘til it’s finished?

PN: We only released a few songs originally. Now it’s just if we think of something and it hits you, we just take off from there. Whatever really gets us going. We kind of put our instrumentation to the lyrics. Recently it’s been a lot of jamming stuff, but it used to be like straightforward songwriting.

We’d rather write songs. We had to make a lot of jams for our live shows over the summer.

AP: What influenced you guys in terms of records, bands, artists?

PN: We all like the same stuff generally. We really like the Shangri Las, we recently got into them, they’re blowing our minds. If you take anything away from this interview…listen to the Shangri Las. Listen to our music, please, but on top of that, please listen to the Shangri Las. I guess we started out in high school liking the Strokes. those were the first few albums we fell in love with. It’s moved on a lot, like Flaming Lips, psychedelic kind of stuff, MGMT, and obviously, Tame Impala. All those kind of bands right now. There’s so much music today, people are always like “music today’s kinda shit,” but we think it’s alive and well.

AP: Who’s your favorite new-ish artist/band that you’ve heard recently?

PN: Little Green Cars, they’re an Irish band. They’re not even really out there yet but people should listen to them. We don’t listen to as much new music as we should.

AP: Which one would win in a fight, a grilled cheese or a PB&J?

PN: Neither. A taco would come in and claim victory.

AP: No way, they break so easily, and the meat would just fall out!

PN: Dude, soft shells, they have those impact barriers on them. Tacos always win, well not always. Tacos only win when it’s prison rules. Otherwise, PB&J obviously. It would just suffocate the grilled cheese. Grilled cheese could use cheese traps, like cheese spiderwebs that would come out.

The Post Nobles are continuing to play shows around New York and Long Island, with some potential dates in the Boston area in the not-too-distant future. If you’re heading to CMJ this coming week, make sure you check out their unofficial “Do It Your Damn Self” showcase, co-hosted by Kaeros and TUN.com, at Playwrights Irish Pub on October 16th.