Loop - RFD

I was sufficiently intrigued to invest in a vinyl copy of...some Loop album or other (maroon sleeve, long hair) a while back. Listened to it once, it reminded me of Swervedriver, not heard it since. Save me.

Soundhead
Straight to Your Heart
Rocket USA
Collision
Thief of Fire/Thief (Motherfucker) - (combined)
Black Sun
Torched
Vision Stain
Got to Get It Over
Arc-Lite (Sonar)
Vapour
Afterglow
The Nail Will Burn
Shot with a Diamond
Arc-Lite (Radiated)

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I think Robert Hampson plays on both sides as he was in both bands at the time.

(OK, HSA claims that Robert is a miserable bastard, but don't pay attention to this bit.)

Sonic Boom now runs an ashtray stall at Saddington car boot sale near Leicester.

still having trouble?

anyone thinking this is a joke? sadly its not, i've seen mr kember with a stall at saddington carboot sale...when i saw him it had more plastic toys than ashtrays though...

I've STILL got "Fade Out" on CD (though actually toying with selling it a few times) and because of this thread, I will be pulling it out as soon as the new Crispy Ambulance CD stops playing on my boom box.

My main impression of Loop live is NIRVANA, literally. I saw them at the old 930 Club location in D.C. and this was before Nirvana hit it big and some idiot decided that Nirvana would be a good band to open for Loop. I found the whole thing very sad because there was a whole lot of crowd mania for Nirvana and then a quarter of the people left, leaving Loop as some footnote, like they weren't important at all. I just thought "oh here I go, being the lonely anglophile again"

I thought Gilded Eternity was disappointing when it came out, but it kindof grew on me. DAMN I wish I had it with me now instead of all the way across the country on vinyl at my parent's house.

Next to Loop I don't give a fuck about Spacemen 3.

Can someone make me a CDR?

I wish people wouldn't call Loop "shoegazer". Loop are about as shoegazer as Coldplay.

yay! someone i agree with!

that 1st H&STCo isn't dreadful, but it does sound tentative. i think they just couldn't decide whether to be Can or Cop Shoot Cop. Roli Mosimann's production just overwhelms any personality that more confident music might have expressed. took me forever to get around to Over Valence, but it's much better. like a poppier Loop or maybe a testosterone-fueled Electrealane. there's a H&STCo. 7", Crouch End, on Aquese(?) that's pretty good, more of a Splintered/Husk sound. Psychedelische Musique (Lava Surf Kunst) was assembled in the manner of Faust Tapes and works both as homage and as a damn good listen. have they done anything since as H&STCo? i know John Wills works closely with (wife?) Pinkie Maclure. their latest project, Lumen, turned in one of the most memorable album debuts of 2003, This Day and Age. lovely stuff.

what have Nigel Webb and Neil Mackay been up to?

and what did Savage Opera sound like?

I can't believe how many times I thought I would sell this CD. I think I tried to once, but the store wouldn't buy it. I didn't mind the music on the CD, but I had been more of a fan of their earlier work, and this was a departure from that. I can't believe in all these years it's never left my posession. I can actually take the production better. Heavens End just sounded so treble-heavy when I tried to play it again recently.

Man, all this thread talk has me jonesing. Excuse me, I'm going to blast that there "Straight To Your Heart" from Wolf Flow now...

Not ready yet, but soon
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So! Had a great interview with Mr. Hampson himself for Bandcamp today. The piece will serve as an overall introduction to his work across the decades but also got some great thoughts about the new album. Will run in a few weeks.

Looking forward to it!

New single sounds like Read & Burn-era Wire to me. (Warning: strobe light-y video.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vt59YEQiAE

okay that's a good song! but tbh i'd rather have something else than the sound just wubbing about the stereo field in the spaces where there once would have been guitar solos or whatever

when i were a lad all this were wah pedals round 'ere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBmjOBwczXk

^^^ wish i hadn't missed that

listening to the new one, kind of reminds me of early Main but weirdly upbeat (so far)

Went to listen to the new album after midnight last night and it wasn't available. Some places say the "release" is set for 3/25. Guess the physical got pushed back so they delayed putting it up on streaming outlets until then?

Yeah something like that. My interview will yet be along, it's in the editorial pipeline.

!!

Excited to see that interview.

xxp huh

well it's on certain music sharing sites already. only even thought to check because the original release date was today iirc.

also looking forward to the interview, Ned!

I'm seeing 3/25 as the release date most places, 4/22 according to Amazon.

The vocal on “Fermion” sounds like Ian Curtis, in a really good way.

Listening now and enjoying it. Pre-ordered the deluxe 2CD version; don't know how radical the bonus remix disc will be.

Okay! The interview is live!

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/loop-robert-hampson-discography

Good read and apparently I've missed a good amount of his more recent stuff, must rectify.

Yeah I had no idea about any of his non-Loop stuff, that all looks really fascinating

There have apparently been major problems with the pressings of the coloured vinyl versions of the new release. to the extent that it appears the purple vinyl has been withdrawn.

xpost -- Thanks indeed. The goal of the piece was to very much place his wider work in context, he's absolutely been very busy with all kinds of work all this time. And much as I enjoyed finally seeing Loop a few years back, a US solo tour would be even more fascinating, if utterly unlikely.

It would be great if he and Beggars Banquet could be friends again; the primary Main catalog needs to be back in print.

Does it ever!

Streamed the album a few times, it is quite good. It touches a lot of the same receptors that Chrome hit for me, and that is never a bad thing when I am concerned.

I am a little bummed that physical product won't be available until 4/22. Even the CD has evidently been delayed. But it's already in the queue for me to order.

I am a little bummed that physical product won't be available until 4/22. Even the CD has evidently been delayed. But it's already in the queue for me to order.

I ordered mine directly from the band's webstore and got it three days before street date. It seems like they've still got copies of the deluxe version with the bonus remix EP, too.

I received my CD on Friday.

All I know is Amazon says they ain't getting it until 4/22 and the Record Store Day website for retailers says the same thing.

I assume you guys are not in the US and/or you bought it from outside America? Because I'll deal with the wait if it will save me from spending $25-30 for a single CD.

I’m in NJ. It was $37 for the double CD and shipping but that was the only way to get the bonus disc so I did it.

Yeah, with shipping from the UK. I don't need the limited version I don't think.
It looks like the label's US store has the regular CD but charges $8.20 to ship!

Everyone else domestically says I gotta wait. And I waited this long for a new Loop album, what's another month?

I pre-ordered my CD from Cooking Vinyl about two weeks ago, because it was a lot cheaper shipping than from the band's official site. It has not yet been shipped though.

I saw a copy in a local store a week ago and would have grabbed it if I hadn't already pre-ordered it from Cooking Vinyl, but now it's release day and it still hasn't even been shipped. Shoulda just ordered from the big bad A on this one.

This is pretty good indeed! I wasn't sure what this would bring and kept my expectations low, but this is a really nice continuation of their catalog.

Sadly I think ordering from Cooking Vinyl was a huge mistake, my CD copy still hasn't even shipped, so streaming it in the meantime and considering sourcing a cheaper copy elsewhere. Not sure if this is a standard experience from them or what, but lesson learned.

'A Guilded Eternity' sounded pretty ace to me today giving it a listen for the first time in years. I got to give 'Fade Out' a listen next.

Got to figure Loop might have missed a bit not hanging around another year or two when the Alt-Rock circus broke big worldwide. Main was cool, but it was more of an ambient group.

Those two Loop records I got warm thoughts about as they are in a list of a bunch I found all at once in one semester of doing radio in college. I had a crap early a$$ morning slot, but dug it quite a bit except that one day I came in and both turn tables, the CD player and the tape player had been stolen. Jason Gross of Perfect Sound Forever had the next slot that first semester.