Popeye was an established fixture in Southern California, both personally and creatively, as the

former frontman for melodic hardcore greats FARSIDE. There was little in his routine to suggest

at that point that Popeye's life was headed for any sort of major change. It felt like an ideal life,

in fact, until it didn't.

'It was very solitary, and I guess I was OK with that-or at least I told myself that I was OK

with that-until I met the woman who is now my wife,' he explains. 'That absolutely changed

everything.'

At the tail end of 2021, Popeye (FARSIDE) uprooted his entire life to move across the country to

the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he would eventually come to meet the rest of his new

band Calling Hours: guitarists Thomas McGrath (THE COMMERCIALS) and Tony Bavaria

(THE COMMERCIALS), bassist Garrett Rothman (DON't SLEEP), and drummer Jim Bedorf

(DON't SLEEP).

For Brian McTernan, a celebrated producer with a nearly 30-year history of shaping some of the

biggest hardcore records of all time-including albums for HOT WATER MUSIC, TURNSTILE,

CIRCA SURVIVE, and THRICE-advancing Calling Hours from the idea stage to the recording

stage was personal: 'Popeye is one of his favorite singers of all time,' Rothman explains. 'He

told me he named one of his cats after Popeye.'

The outcome of that collaboration is Say Less, a seven-song record for Revelation Records

that revisits the band members' melodic, post-punk sensibilities while working in a decidedly

contemporary direction. It's also a deep dive into the feelings of displacement and discomfort

that punctuated Popeye's move-a meditation on the intersection of sense of place and sense

of self.

TRACK LIST

1. Cardboard & Aluminum

2. Curtain Call

3. Gin Perry

4. Low End Theory

5. Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?

6. Heavy Future

7. Alex Chilton