Loop Sonancy LP

The band's eagerly anticipated fourth LP, Sonancy 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.

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. Loop stand as innovators in a musical world that has embraced and followed their defiantly individual sound - there are hundreds of contemporary neo-psych artists out there who arguably would not exist without Loop's pioneering music, music that continues to evolve and grow in the most startling of ways on Sonancy.

"Style wise, it's incredibly different, going back to thinking about guitars and guitar sounds. Obviously you have to take into consideration things like percussive elements such as drums, which I haven't been using in my other projects; but this is the mind set that makes up Loop," says Robert Hampson, the indefatigable visionary behind inspirational sonic architects Loop.

...[T]he murky confusion that defined the first three Loop albums gets a considerable cleanup here, with the band exploring harsh high-end guitar frequencies, fuller production values, and a wider gradient of distortion sounds....The 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.