The underrated guitar army Loop is coming back into print, after years hidden beneath the afterglow of My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
If you want a nicely distorted taste of Loop’s droned riffage, make sure to check out Morphizm’s video reel at the top of the site for the “Collision” video. But the band’s best tune “This is Where You End” can be had at my Wired post on the Loop. More after the jump.
Space-Rock Pioneers Loop Reissue Early Works
Feeding blues, garage, drone and avant-garde rock through fuzzed, wailing amps and guitars, Loop redefined spatial noise along with bands like Spacemen 3, The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. But it still unfairly remains the unheard standout of that storied crowd.
But not for long. Like Swerdriver and My Bloody Valentine, Loop’s architect Robert Hampson is seizing the 2008 zeitgeist and reissuing his band’s 1987 debut Heaven’s End and the 1989 follow-up Fade Out in November. Those two auspicious releases will be followed by the 1988 compilation The World in Your Eyes, reintroducing the band that went on to influence everyone from Mogwai to A Place to Bury Strangers. MORE @ WIRED