Loop’s first album in 31 years to get an exclusive Fuzz Club Edition

Legendary noise merchants announce ‘Sonancy’, due out March 11th 2022, and share the first single ‘Halo’

 

The mighty Loop are back with their first studio album in thirty years and we’re mega excited to be doing an exclusive Fuzz Club Edition! The eagerly anticipated fourth LP 'Sonancy' (Latin for “to create noise”) from the inspirational sonic architects is the perfect document for these strange times. Dynamic, dystopian, righteously angry and unashamedly Loop-ian, it’s an album that marks a vital re-emergence for Robert Hampson and co. Our version comes on 180g transparent orange vinyl with black galaxy effect. You can pre-order the vinyl HERE and check out the first taste of the album, ‘Halo’, below. 

 

Formed in South London in the mid-1980s, Loop blazed a trail with their potent mix of motorik beats and heavy guitar riffs, recording a trio of brilliant albums that set the indie charts alight before imploding in 1990 after the release of album number three, A Gilded Eternity. As critics enthused at the time, Loop were the sound of Suicide jamming with the Stooges aboard a spaceship built by Hawkwind and piloted by CAN. They were post-psychedelic, pre-shoegaze figureheads in a  world of anodyne pop jangle and baggy rhythms, and even their closest contemporaries like Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine didn’t plough such a distinctive furrow as theirs.

 

“My motto has always been ‘Forward’ and I always try to do something new with each record. I always try to push different influences in there. Specifically for this record, I wanted to counter the idea of the Array EP (2015), on which all the tracks were long and drawn out. They still had the motorik element of bands like Neu! and  CAN, but Loop’s always had that. With Sonancy I also wanted to take a post-punk sound, spin it on its head and mix it with a psych influence. A total gumbo. Which has always been Loop, this mash-up of spicy rhythms.”

 

Indeed, with its rich mixture of styles and cadences, Sonancy is the sound of Loop in the 21st century, Hampson’s intense guitar work anchored by propulsive backing in service of songs with clinically dissociative titles such as ‘Eolian’, ‘Supra’, ‘Penumbra’  and ‘Fermion’.

 

“People who know my music well know that from the last Loop album onwards, my  interest in chemistry, science and astronomy have come to the fore,” Hampson  elaborates. “I use those titles but I use them in an abstract context. With the cutback,  minimalist sound I wanted for this record, I wanted to do that with the lyrics and the  titles as well. It’s very immediate. The songs are shorter in length, the lyrics more minimal than ever.”

 

 

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