I am a big fan of both Spacemen 3 and Loop, and I see them totally differently. Loop's music is very minimalist music with complex layers. It is still very hard sounding with metronomic drums and fuzzy guitars. The Loop can be summed up by Soundhead thumping drums that sound like canons. Wah saturated in reverb that is so raw your ears feel like they are going to bleed. Very hypnotic and dark.
While the work of other late 80s noise terrorists My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3 are celebrated. Loop has been forgotten. Even when the out-of-print albums were re released, not much was said. They had been out of print over a decade. News that they were being released seemed to only circulate around fan based websites.
If you still don't believe; sit in a darkened room, crack open a bottle of Thunderbird and turn the volume up.
Loop : Heaven's End
http://www.mediafire.com/?ems3bmte4gnt0zu
Soundhead
Straight to Your Heart
Forever
Heaven's End
Too Real to Feel
Fix to Fall
Head On
Carry Me
Rocket USA
Spinning (Full Version)
Brittle Head Girl
by far and away the most underrated and forgotten sonic shoegaze treasure of a band along with the telescopes.
ReplyDeleteGreat band, though a massive doobie is preferable to Thunderbird
ReplyDeleteAnything Loop is amazing, and thanks for (hopefully) introducing some new listeners.
ReplyDeleteI too was rather dismayed that the reissues came out with barely a whisper anywhere, especially as the original CD releases were by that point selling for crazy money in the pre-owned market...affordable, enhanced re-releases should have been much bigger news. Hey, ho...it seems to be getting harder and harder to interest anyone in great music from this period.
How about posting some early Main?