Loop - Gilded Eternity
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Artist: LoopEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-02-22
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Vapour
- Afterglow
- The Nail Will Burn
- Blood
- Breathe into Me
- From Centre To Wave
- Be Here Now
- Shot With A Diamond
- Nail Will Burn (Burn Out)
- Arc-Lite (Sonar)
Free Music Notes for Gilded Eternity
Free Music Review: burns beautiful holes in your mind
Hit: 5 Stars
For those of you who have never heard Loop: imagine a massive drill boring into the earth, ever spinning, digging a deeper and deeper hole, ever approaching the core, digging with more intensity until you think it's going to crack the earth wide open. Or perhaps you are a yogi, entranced, the mandala of your mind spinning in a pool of pure sound that is impossible to escape. If Loop were an ice cream, it would be a raspberry sorbet that could melt nails. They pile on so much density, so much pure sound in each track, it seems it would destroy it. The sound is molten and sweet and bitter and razor sharp all once, with just enough cosmic glue to hold it together.
These guys may not have invented drone-rock (look to late sixties obscurities Silver Apples for that honor) but they perfected the form, successfully marrying the hypnotic repetition of drone with pure sonic crunch of the Stooges (Spacemen 3 worked that angle too, but Loop swamps them in my opinion). Early efforts like Heaven's End trafficked in the same sort of noisy pop as contemporaries My Bloody Valentine, but with that repetitive, droning, time-warping structure. Subsequent LP Fade Out is Loop at a new apex, a perfectly cut diamond, prefiguring and outgrunging grunge.
Their swan song A Gilded Eternity betters Fade Out with more sophisticated melody, albeit in the same repetitious vein. "Vapour" opens the album in standard Loop fashion, a buzzing anthem dropping Stooges and Sonics references. "Afterglow" sounds vaguely eastern, a whirling dervish with a stomp box. By what used to be the last song on side one (and still is, at my house), "Blood," the album turns in a tantalizing direction: for lack of a better term, drone/ambient. Robert's vocals are not always easy to decipher, frequently mixed down or laden with fx, but here they are positively vaporous, ethereal, floating on currents of delay and phasing. The guitars still burn but in a more abstract place, enveloped in reverb, locked in a slowly decaying echo, immutable. All this makes for a hypnotic, atmospheric album, hard in some places and soft in others, in many ways an emphatic exclamation point ending an era in which "indie" really was short for independent.
Completists: very definitely track down the out of print "Wolf Flow," a compilation of Loop's Peel sessions. The essence of the group's oeuvre is impossibly packed into an hour of glorious stripped-down noise. On it you'll find the distracting glaze removed from the insistant machinery of "From Centre to Wave," revealing the inner workings like the gears in a watch. Relentless and absorbing.
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Discordant, elusive and utterly hypnotic, Loop conjured a dark, trance-like spell that contrasted sharply with the prevailing British pop music trends of their time. Equal parts the Stooges, Can and Hawkwind, in tandem with fellow travellers Spacemen 3 they resurrected the concept of space-rock for a new era, creating droning soundscapes of bleak beauty and harsh dissonance. Highligts include 'Vapour', 'Afterglow' and 'Blood'. Beggars.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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