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Fade Out

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Masters of the heavy drone that emitted a purified relentless force by the time their last outing, "A Gilded Eternity", was released, Loop was well on its way to extending and refining their cyclical, mantra-like riffing on "Fade Out", their second and penultimate release. Loop's sound was massive, propulsive, and monolithic, heavily amplified, and channeled through the respective effects racks of their multiple guitarists, carrying a psychedelic edge that had a visceral and sinister aspect to it. "Fade Out" contains a number of tracks that have an invocational quality to them, sounding not so much as if they were petitioning a friendly deity as perhaps the Elder Gods of the universe, best left slumbering and unaware of our existence. And just listen to "Pulse", "This Is Where You End" and "Got To Get It Over" if you need any sort of aural confirmation; though not as chilling as perhaps the last two tracks on "A Gilded Eternity" (which sound as if they're emerging from the deepest recesses of a universe where everything is opiated and the number of fixed, recognizable dimensional points are truly infintesimal at best). "Fade Out" brought Loop right to the building blocks of the surreal, nearly hallucinatory architecture that serve as the foundation for "A Gilded Eternity", but stands alone as a truly compelling, hypnotic work on its own.

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This is total acid rock. Like the Black Angels of the 80s. I'm so glad that Reactor has reissued all of Loop's albums. Now if they could just reissue all of Sun Dial's albums, another great early 90s psychedelic rock group from the UK.

Fade Out for me was always the most together Loop album. I've owned it on tape and cd for years. The Re-issue sounds great and the extras are really nice. This is really worth buying. Loop was cool and ahead of their time taking drone rock to the next level. Amazing still 20 years later.

Listen to this album just once, and I'll guarantee you'll be throwing those Pearl Jam / Emo CDs straight into the garbage!

Radio sucked in the 80's. Yeah, it still kinda sucks now, but not like then. Fortunately, there were albums like this that one could dig up from the underground and feel like there was still hope for Rock music. It is droney, stoney, and heavy in a way like nothing else that existed then or today. Loop's guitars came on with a sonic assault that would weave in and out of patterns with their rhythm section that could lift your mind to new dimensions. Husker Du, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine are other bands launching walls of guitar from the same period, but nothing compares to Loop. If they don't exist in their own dimension, they at least possess an alternate galaxy. I owned this album on cassette, and now I want it on vinyl, or at least CD. Hopefully, it will turn up for sale sometime soon.