THANKS TO ALL WHO ATTENDED NOISE POP 30!

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Monday, February 20, 2023 (Opening Night of Noisepop’s 30th Anniversary!)
w/ Ted Leo’s CHISEL and Everyone Asked About You
@ Great American Music Hall

We’re sorry that we have been scarce this past decade, but Greg, the founder, was seen to utter ancient incantations before a tome bound in human vellum five years ago. He was only capable of pronouncing these runic phrases by surgically altering the dimensions of his tongue with a pair of tin snips. As a consequence, he was absorbed into the 47-tentacled rictus of Yog Sothoth that suddenly appeared in his linen closet, and then cast into a multi-dimensional obstacle course of swampy green mystic fire and naked mole rats the size of musk ox, upon which fossilized emissaries of the old gods—freshly animated by his unwitting invitation—mounted and reared, wielding halberds etched and inscribed with the blood of apostate seminarians.

Greg recently returned with mostly gray hair and a strange accent. Once we weaned him off the consumption of wood alcohol mixed with graveyard humus, we asked if he would be capable of a reunion show, and he wept sooty black tears and agreed. In support of this return, Kelly Atkins, Nils Erickson, Adam Cunha, Joe Ostrowski, Kevin Seal, and Jordan Glenn have reassembled 20 Minute Loop just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of Noisepop next year.

Thanks to the folks at Noisepop for hosting us a sixth time in the past twenty years! They are too good to us.

Our entire catalogue is available on Bandcamp!

As for our most recent release “Songs Praising the Mutant Race”:
You can buy the LP here, or the CD here ... you can also buy the digital download on Bandcamp.

Naked freakpop songs rich with boy/girl harmonies, cinematic lyrics and melodic plot twists, all recorded live as a trio and peppered with wineglass organ, trumpet, viola, accordion.

The trio is Greg Giles (vocals and guitar), Kelly Atkins (vocals and flute), and Kevin Seal (Rhodes, piano and vocals) -- recorded by Jim Greer at Ninth Street Opus studios in Berkeley, California, and featuring performances by Nils Erickson (guitar), Caitlin Tabancay Austin (vocals), Rebecca Seeman (wineglass organ), Darren Johnston (trumpet), Melanie DeGiovanni (accordion), Laela Peterson-Stolen (viola), Tim Silva (vocals), and Tom Purtill (vocals).

These songs have been stripped to their raggedy bones: reimagined, rearranged, ironed out and stitched back together. And two more besides.

Mastering by Gary Hobish at A. Hammer Mastering in San Francisco.

Album artwork by Sara Lautman.