Greg Giles and Kelly Atkins are the primary songwriting partnership behind
20 Minute Loop. The band has nothing to do with loops and everything to do with good, old-fashioned alienated roots of alterna-rock (the territory formerly occupied by other mighty, mixed-gender bands like X and the Pixies). They're disenfranchised all right, but the music doesn't necessarily reflect the singers' distress. Instead, happy hooks, cute keyboard passages, new wave beats ("Face Like a Horse"), climactic anthems ("You Know So Much") and tidy but glorious pop ("Bunnyman and Chickengirl") are the tuneful accompaniments to the requisite millennial themes of hardship in all of life's quarters. Former member of the beloved, cult pop band
Jellyfish, producer Chris Manning ties it all together into a super-sweet indie-rock-box. ~ Denise Sullivan