Heaven's End | 
| Artist: Loop
Label: ATILA (REVOLVER)
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2249
Format: Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 823566478829
EAN: 0823566478829
ASIN: B001G5UGIO
Release Date: December 9, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Soundhead | | • | Straight to Your Heart | | • | Forever | | • | Heaven's End | | • | Too Real to Feel | | • | Fix to Fall | | • | Head On | | • | Carry Me |
Disc 2
| • | Rocket USA | | • | Soundhead (Orig. Mix) | | • | Head On (Orig. Mix) | | • | Soundhead (Peel Session) | | • | Straight to Your Heart (Peel Session) | | • | Rocket USA (Peel Session) |
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Product Description
Heaven's End and Fade Out are the first two releases in a series of long-overdue reissues by British primal psych band Loop.
The band was formed in London in 1986 by Robert Hampson on guitar and vocals and Beki Stewart (Bex) on drums. After finding bassist Glen Ray, Loop signed to Head Records, run by Jeff Barrett (Heavenly), and released the feedback-drenched 12-inch, 16 Dreams. With the arrival of James Endeacott on second guitar, drummer John Wills, and bassist Neil MacKay, Loop adopted a more primal, rhythmic approach and put out their debut full-length, 1987's Heavens End.
The band hypnotized all with their discordant, trance-like spell which served as an antidote to the prevailing trends in British pop at the time; they resurrected the concept of loud, out-there rock for a new era, creating droning soundscapes of bleak beauty and harsh dissonance loosely influenced by The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The MC5, but retaining the avant-garde and experimental edge of Can, Faust, Neu!, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, and minimalist systems music. Live shows were revelatory--Loop pushed PAs to the very limit, delivering a sonic pummel that has yet to be experienced since.
A collection of singles and B-sides, The World in Your Eyes, appeared in 1987, after which the band signed to the Chapter 22 label and released the 12-inch Collision and their second full-length, Fade Out. Following another label change, another second guitarist, Scott Dowson, and a final album, A Gilded Eternity, the band disbanded in 1990 after four years.
Remastered from the original analog sources, these two out-of-print albums are housed in vinyl-style card sleeves, reproducing the original artwork. Both have been expanded to double discs with a wealth of extra material--original mixes, demos, and Peel Session cuts--from the relevant chronological time frame, and are also available digitally for the first time.
Album Description
2CD Remastered from the original analogue sources, the first 2 releases, Heaven's End and Fade Out will be released as double discs and housed in a mini vinyl style card sleeve, reproducing the original artwork. Will be released with re-mastered extra material from the relevant chronological time frame as the main album.
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Overlooked classic psychedelic album. December 11, 2004
Brett Lloyd (Newport News, Virginia United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Though, compared to the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, and other bands of the shoegazer-era, Loop had very little in common with them. While Loop did have the hypnotic qualities of those bands, they did it with more of a hard rocking and, dare I say it, metal quality to their songs.
All of their albums are out of print, but if you can find them for a reasonable price, go ahead and pick them.
A truly great band. May 8, 2005
J. Geiler
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Unless you consider The Stooges first album, the MC5, Can, or Suicide as metal, then I don't think you'll see Loop as a metal band (see below review). Mix the aforementioned bands with late '60s psychedelia, droning fuzz, and douse the whole thing in washes of reverb and you'll get an idea of what Loop is about. Their albums are enigmatic, hipnotic, repetitive, and yes, that is a recommendation. Spacemen 3, Ride, the Telescopes, all these fellow so called "shoegaze" groups truly pale in comparison.
Part one of immortal rock trilogy December 15, 2005
Noddy (New York)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Get this record. Get Fade Out. Get A Gilded Eternity. Just in case get Wolf Flow and The World in Your Eyes. Get a proper system to play them on. Get high. Get down.
Check this out, from the pen of Robert Hampson himself:
31.10.06. Loop reissues
I'd like to announce, after much pleading, badgering, coercement etc. from many (THANK YOU!), that I am finally putting the wheels into motion on a LOOP Reissue programme. No formal plans have been made as yet, it is very, very, very early days and it may take some time, but the intent is there after all this time. Seeing that 2007 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the release of HEAVEN'S END, I feel I have no excuses left to leave the material out of print. Hopefully, a full and extensive remastering process will be involved, but that's all I can say right at this moment. I will certainly keep you all up to date with further postings...
Roll 'em out dude, I done wore holes in the first lot.
Obsessed with albums 2 & 3 January 14, 2006
Slutsucker (Pit of Fire,Az,usa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
why, Why, WHY! must it be out of print?!
sonic May 25, 2006
A. Crosby
well, i don't think this album was necessarily overlooked as much as just not enough copies printed!! why isn't it available online somewhere..? and the rest of their catalog??
anyway the transitions between songs where power chords and leslie cabinets just saturate the soundfield are insane. truly an awesome, if raw, record and just powerful introduction of the style these guys made over the years.. hard riffs and skittering layers of harmonics, with some old school psyche wah in yo face!! w00t.
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