The Snare - Looper
  • Band Name: Looper
  • Record Label: Mute
  • Release Date: Jun 4, 2002
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  • Summary: Looper's third album (and first for Mute Records) finds Stuart David & co. adopting a darker tone for these ten tracks, which are closely integrated with the band's new live show and promotional materials to tell the story of two characters named Evil Bob and Peacock Johnson.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Playlouder
    80
    But shorn of the spoken word indulgences and look-what-I've-just-found electronica it's a leaner, hungrier beast, a more focussed, more alluring, more dangerous, but still tender trap.
  2. Uncut
    60
    This sees David finally jettisoning his twee heritage for a filmic kitsch. [Jun 2002, p.116]
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  3. Almost Cool
    60
    The Snare works well at moments and at other times feels like a rather tepid trip-hop release from a band still developing their sound.
  4. New Musical Express (NME)
    20
    But wait - is that the ghost of a melody on 'Lover's Leap'? Alas, no: it's merely the desultory whoosh of a once-promising career as it plummets, irretrievably, down the art-pop pan.

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