Loop
Sonancy
Release Date: Mar 25, 2022
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Noise-Rock, Space Rock, Shoegaze
Record label: Cooking Vinyl
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Album Review: Sonancy by Loop
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
The brainchild of Robert Hampson, Loop formed in 1986 and released their gnarly and noisy debut, Heaven's End, the next year. They gained momentum and 1989's Fade Out and 1990's A Gilded Eternity both topped the UK indie charts, and space-rock, as people were calling it, was all the rage. Their impact in the U.S. wasn't as overwhelming, but they were embraced by college radio and sat comfortably alongside other quasi-psychedelic, space-rock units, most notable being Spacemen 3.
Based on rating 3.5
Three decades since the sonic architects’ last album, a band thought to be done and dusted return with a new collection that is distinctly them As far as comebacks go, Loop's is one of the most unexpected of recent times. Having burnt out his attraction to guitars in general, originator Robert Hampson moved on to electronica with his Main project - and relocated to France - and the thought of a future Loop record seemed less likely than a Loch Ness monster sighting. After a brief two-year reformation in 2013 that took in an All Tomorrow's Parties co-curation amongst other things, an EP (Array 1) emerged in 2015.
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