Loop - A Gilded Eternity
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Artist: LoopEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-06-23
Music Label: ATILA (REVOLVER)
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Free Music Review: No Light Escapes To Heaven From Here
Hit: 4 Stars
My 1990 cassette copy of "A Gilded Eternity" has long since been atomized and levitated away in a fine shower of particulate. It felt like I wore that copy out within a year of its purchase. It was the perfect music for entering headspace through all sorts of avenues, and attentive listening consistently revealed new depths to Loop's final release. This CD is a bonus release, but I'd rather concentrate on the original material, which was trailblazing enough.
Loop's sound shares some surface similarities with Spacemen 3, in that it was heavily-amplified, guitar-driven, effects-laden, and highly repetitive in form. But Loop's sound had a more visceral quality to it; it was massive, monolithic, propulsive, and in its standout tracks carried not only a psychedelic edge, but one that truly embraced and explored the more sinister aspect of that sound.
Nowhere was that more present than on "Blood", the fourth track. A sinuous, heavily processed guitar tuned to a minor key weaves its way through repetitive, tribal percussion and bass-line. The surreal, hallucinogenic quality of the track is amplified even further by Robert Hampson's phased, echo-laden vocals, described at the time by critic Michael Yockel as having been "...phoned in from Jupiter."
Most heavily layered of all of their tracks, "Be Here Now" represents the apotheosis of Loop's sound, and "A Gilded Eternity" the natural conclusion of the direction they chose to take as a band. This is the most conventionally structured song on this release, and yet it still manages to sound as if it's emerging from the deepest recesses of a universe where everything is opiated and the number of fixed, recognizable dimensional points are truly infintesimal at best.
"Shot With A Diamond", which closed the original release, signaled the direction that Hampson would take with Main, an ambient, drumless piece, minimalist in composition, yet rising to a climax of chilling pulsation that has the listener envisioning the slow rupture of larvae from a tarantula wasp through the hapless body of its host.
After splitting from Loop, John Wills and Neil McKay (the band's rhythm section) formed the Hair and Skin Trading Company, which took the creeping sense of menace on "A Gilded Eternity" into a slightly more structured direction on their final release "Over Valence". However, this CD can be regarded as the inspiration from which those compositions sprang, if not the final blueprint. "A Gilded Eternity" was truly one of the genre-bending releases of the '90's, and definitely recommended.
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