Cover of Loop Heaven's End
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For fans of loop, lovers of psychedelic and experimental rock, listeners seeking intense and atmospheric soundscapes
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THE REVIEW

I turn off the player. The head is a crazed blender, you could stick the Stooges, the Suicide, and the Can with all their instrumentation through one ear and see so much lysergic acid drip out the other side that it would keep you out of this world for eternity. It's so heavy that you could attach the chain of Maria to the top of the skull to tie it to Jesus' foot and forever condemn him to the miserable earthly life.

The culprits are these three Londoners dressed in black, Robert Hampson, Neil Mc Kay, and John Wills. From that night in 1990 lost in the depths of a venue carved into the caves of my ancient Palepoli, like a starless sky, the black grid of a faded ceiling. The sonic mantra forced many to sit crouched with their heads between their knees as if to protect the auditory nerve from the interruption of blood flow to the cerebral cortex. In the pitch dark, I can hear the feedback as if coming from the dawn of the Mesozoic era and it sounds so loud that it causes continental drift. The album tracks are unraveled like a blasphemous litany using colored pills instead of rosary beads.

It's like grabbing Iggy Pop by the cojones and launching him into hyperspace in an elliptical orbit around the Earth, so that once a year he can pass close enough to the Ann Arbor elementary school to allow the children to catch his hand drawing a fleeting and melancholic hello... hello... hello...

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Summary by Bot

Loop’s Heaven’s End creates an intense, psychedelic soundscape that feels both heavy and hypnotic. The three London band members use feedback and mantra-like repetition to craft a unique and overwhelming auditory experience. The reviewer evokes vivid imagery of the album’s power and lasting impact. It’s described as a timeless, otherworldly sonic journey.

Tracklist Videos

01   Soundhead (04:58)

02   Straight to Your Heart (06:16)

03   Forever (04:47)

04   Heaven's End (04:06)

05   Too Real to Feel (05:13)

06   Fix to Fall (04:32)

07   Head On (02:43)

08   Carry Me (05:02)

09   Rocket USA (05:16)

10   Spinning (full version) (06:32)

11   Brittle Head Girl (04:32)

Loop

Loop are an English rock band formed in 1986 and led by Robert Hampson. Their sound blends hypnotic repetition, feedback-drenched guitars, and psychedelic/space-rock intensity. They released the classic trilogy Heaven's End (1987), Fade Out (1988), and A Gilded Eternity (1990), split in 1991, reformed in 2013, issued the EP Array 1 (2015), and returned with the album Sonancy (2022).
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