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General Info
Magnapop are a four-piece pop-core band from Atlanta, GA. Singer Linda Hopper and guitarist Ruthie Morris have been playing together for years. After a self imposed hiatus, and the addition of Scott Rowe on bass and Chad Williams on drums, the band is back, revitalized and ready to rock with a new album, Chase Park.
Chase Park is distributed in Belgium and the Netherlands by Bassick Records and released on the band's own label, The Kraft, in the rest of the world.
News
We will be heading back to the Low Countries in June (2010) for more shows in The Netherlands and Belgium.
See the website for more Magnapop related stuff.
PS: We get a lot of email and song requests and the like. Please don't be offended but we typically don't get to login to myspace everyday. Drop by the website and email us from there for a more direct way to communicate. And THANKS FOR LISTENING!!!
"Chase Park" reviews
Oor magazine, the Netherlands:
“When I'm listening to Magnapop, I'm 18 again. What a compelling guitar band they were in the rather serious American indie-rock scene of the early nineties! Singer Linda Hopper wasn't too obviously good-looking and her voice wasn’t pristine. Still, everyone fell in love with her. Magnapop was unpretentious and disarming. Hopper and guitarist Ruthie Morris made another Magnapop album in 2005, Mouthfeel. And now here is Chase Park, only just the fifth album. Nothing has changed, which is a very good thing. Magnapop still make smooth, catchy and definitely not too complicated guitar rock. Chase Park contains a dozen fine songs, even though for some reason Looking For Jesus, Ghosts, Bangkok and Feedback Blues stay with me the most. Also the rocking Jesus - a cover of a song by their contemporaries Spiderbait - is nice, and Need More proves yet again that a gritty ballad suits Magnapop very well. Awesome - I still can't resist their music!””
FileUnder.nl, the Netherlands:
"In the early Nineties, when Ruthie Morris and Linda Hopper toured through the Netherlands with their band, I bought a T-shirt: green, with a red logo. A few years later - it must have been at the time of the tour for their third record, Rubbing Doesn't Help - my T-shirt had been discoloured, so I bought a new one. Then for many years we didn't hear anything from Magnapop - until 2003, when they gave a concert in the Netherlands again. I bought my third, identical T-shirt. As if there were still a few boxes underneath Linda Hopper's bed. Three years after that, they released their fourth album, Mouthfeel. Once again there wasn’t much difference between the new album and its former ones. Of course, their self-titled debut surprised everyone and it would be impossible for another, later album to have the same effect: the first cut is the deepest. But I would never go so far as to label the albums that followed as trite. It took Magnapop four years to come with a new album this time: their fifth album, Chase Park. But you certainly can’t tell. No staleness, no songs that sound like they’ve had years of studio work spent on them. Twelve cherry-fresh pop songs with rough guitars and Linda Hopper's voice-to-fall-in-love-with. Next month I'll get hold of my fourth t-shirt.” - Jorg Roosma
Heaven magazine, the Netherlands:
“Magnapop? Are they still alive? Oh yes, and they’ve still got Linda Hopper and Ruthie Morris as their standard-bearers. Not much has changed since their early days in the mid-Nineties, but anyone with a nostalgic longing longs for their catchy punk-pop will be well-served with their brand new CD, Chase Park. Even though Magnapop’s sound is familiar, the songs are still very powerful, with all sorts of highlights that can be compared to their best work.” - Eric van Domburg Scipio
RifRaf magazine, Belgium:
"Singer Linda Hopper and Ruthie Morris are the ever-charming key figures of Magnapop. In 1992, Michael Stipe was the producer of their debut EP. Ever since, they have been making unpretentious punk rock with a cheerful twist. Time hasn't changed anything about their recognizable sound. Chase Park won't really surprise you, but it won't disappoint you either. Q-Tip, Jesus and Futue Forward will rock your ears. A great time is guaranteed when Magnapop bring their music to the live arena on their Belgian tour in May and June."
"Mouthfeel" reviews
Washington Post:".Magnapop's long-forgotten lesson -- one in abundance on the band's new disc, "Mouthfeel" -- is that being "edgy" sometimes is just a matter of playing it cool."
PopMatters".delivering 11 tight, exciting new songs without a dud in the midst, the band never forgets what it means to kick the hell back into a melody."
