New Real People are a trio; the latest musical offering from Leppotone Electrical Recordings. New Real People are three guys who have been playing music together for a long time in various combinations and incarnations. These groups include Detroit garage sensations Fortune and Maltese and the Phabulous Pallbearers, as well as Michigan regional favorites The Sinatras, The Sleestacks, Twister and Goldstar.

New Real People have been described as “a kaleidoscopic salad of American pop performed with radiant mania” that “reveals an arty and wonderfully cracked conceptualism.” (The Cleveland Scene)

New Real People were born because … well, because it’s always time to try something new, especially when combating the anxiety, confusion, and cranial numbness that accompanies life in the 21st century.

Every Wednesday for three months, Nathan and Scott and Karl gathered in their rehearsal space, turned on a ratty Califone recorder, and spontaneously wrote songs. Few tunes were ever revisited or refined at the time, left behind in favor of continuous forward motion. At the end of three months, there was a dizzying diversity of music committed to hours and hours of cheap cassette tape. New Real People named themselves, picked their thirteen favorite songs, and emerged from the basement to go public as a band.

Hearing their music described as post-garage, they summed up what they are as succinctly as possible:

It’s not just the other side of the coin, it’s the wallet on the other side of the pants.