Loop - RFD

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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I saw them live lots of times and they were terrific. One time in particular I will never forget was at the QMU in Glasgow. The PA didn't show up so they did the set on a bare stage, totally instrumentally. Mind-blowing!

I remember my indie chums derided them as heavy metal, but I went straight out and bought "16 Dreams". I was totally into the whole Chelsea Boots, stand-up drummer, psychedelic background thing.

I sort of lost them a bit after Fade Out, but rediscovered them again after many years and listened again to A Gilded Eternity, which is a classic.

ha, i was there as well! there was a really good show later on at the Tech, "From Centre To Wave" was so loud my ears hurt for days afterwards.

I'm trying to find Wolf Flow on s!sk, but having no luck.

What killed my interest was seeing them live around '90 - '91 at Maxwell's in Hoboken. They were just so serious, droning on and on - and this from a Swans/Godflesh fan! What summed it up for me was when they blew the power three times in a row and started the same song over again each time it was interrupted, like a pack of dullard robots. They even managed to make strobe lights boring.

Although I must say this thread has peaked my interest in hearing Wolf Flow / A Gilded Eternity....

You don't need the latter part of that statement.

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.