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- Summary: The first full-length release for British rock band Loop in over 30 years features a new line-up led by Robert Hampson.
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- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Noise-Rock, Space Rock, Shoegaze
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Mar 28, 2022The creeping lurch and distressed fuzz damage of final track "Aurora" bring the likenesses and differences of previous phases of the band into clear focus, closing out Sonancy with a sound that could fit anywhere in the Loop discography but feels especially visceral, more dynamic than ever, and somehow new.
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Mar 28, 2022Tumultuous, trippy and brilliantly untamed, Sonancy is a magnificent comeback.
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The WireMar 30, 2022For this album to be worthwhile, Hampson has to do more than revisit his old, gold moments. At the same time, this incarnation of Loop functions partly as a reassessment of what made the sound they landed on so glorious in the first place. Both notions can coexist, and for the most part they do, with loud, laudable abandon. [Mar 2022, p.48]
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Mar 28, 2022There is a sonic poetry and timelessness to this music that is hard to quantify. As if it comes from a distant galaxy and doesn’t answer to our concepts of time or space.
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MojoMar 28, 2022With most cuts clocking in under five minutes, Sonancy's austere precision carries right through to its auteur's Chrome-esque robo voicing. [Apr 2022, p.80]
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Mar 30, 2022With less decay and bleed coming from the guitars, Sonancy benefits from a greater degree of separation in its instrumentation. Consequently, every track gets to breath. There’s little stifling claustrophobia at play here and much like the psychedelic experience, the music reaches and stretches out for a greater truth and space.
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Mar 28, 2022It might not be exactly how you remember Loop to be, but it’s distinctly Loop nevertheless and is a welcome return for a band that were thought to be done and dusted.