Too loud, on purpose.
Four people from three different towns who couldn't stop showing up to the same open mics.
It started at an open mic that wouldn't book us.
Nico and Dresden met trading sets at a Lancaster open mic that kept scheduling them back to back — mostly, it turned out, because the sound guy liked watching them fight over amp volume. Marlow and Wilder showed up a year later, poached from two different bands that had both broken up the same summer.
We've been Younger Kings since 2021 — five years of basements, borrowed vans, and rooms too small for the sound we insisted on making anyway. Paper Crown is the first record where we finally sound like we mean to.
Nico Hale
Writes most of the lyrics on long drives between shows, usually into a voice memo nobody else can find later.
Dresden Poole
Built the pedalboard that half the tour techs ask to photograph. Still uses the amp he bought at sixteen.
Marlow Reyes
The one who actually reads the contracts. Keeps the band on schedule more than anyone will admit.
Wilder Kane
Counts the band in the same way every single time — a habit from years of marching band.
2021
Basement Tapes EP, five songs, recorded the summer everyone turned nineteen.
Lancaster, PA
Still rehearse in the same converted garage where the band actually started.
120+ Shows
Across three tours behind Static Bloom and now Paper Crown.
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Festival slots, private shows, and licensing inquiries welcome.