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- Summary: The four-track EP from the British alternative rock band founded by Robert Hampson comes after the group reunited in 2013 for the All Tomorrow's Parties festival.
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- Record Label: ATP
- Genre(s): Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Jul 24, 2015Like its celebrated, quarter-century old predecessor, Array 1 is the culmination of the group’s furious fusion of psychedelic crunch, ambient moan and motorik vroom, and a reminder of just how brilliant Loop is and always was.
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Jul 21, 2015Radial, a 17-minute symphony in three parts: first, a foreboding, dark-tinged awakening, replete with nonhuman sounds in the vocal register; after six minutes the band comes in with another trademark minor-key song; then a final, tense, otherworldly coda hinting at stranger worlds to come.
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Jul 10, 2015Array 1 contains enough moments of unparalleled brilliance to make autumn's projected follow-up EP a mouthwatering prospect.
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Jul 23, 2015Four tracks explore their studio space over 32 minutes, each progressively and intriguingly more experimental.
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MagnetJul 10, 2015All four of these tracks succeed in holding the listener's attention throughout. [No. 122, p.57]
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Jul 27, 2015The EP leads with a pair of sludgy pysch jams, decelerates for the slightly abrasive "drumless space" of "Coma," and closes with the side-long "Radial," which begins and ends with shifting drones that flank seven minutes of searing menace that recall early, "the Can"-era Can.
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Q MagazineJul 10, 2015A missed open goal. [Aug 2015, p.110]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1