Fade Out

Loop | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Label: Rough Trade
• ASIN: B000008HU3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #642,254 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Black Sun

2. This Is Where You End

3. Fever Knife

4. Torched

5. Fade Out

6. Pulse

7. Vision Stain

8. Got To Get It Over

9. Collision

10. Crawling Heart

11. Thief Of Fire / Thief (Motherfucker)

12. Mother Sky

Editorial Reviews

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. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dopplering In, December 17, 2011

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kabalabonga - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fade Out (Audio CD)

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.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wrong track listing, December 10, 2008

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Brian the Audiophiliac - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fade Out (Audio CD)

Amazon has listed the wrong tracks for this title. They have duplicated the info from Heavens End.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 80s Acid Rock?! NO WAY! yes way.., December 2, 2009

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Anthony "Anthony" (Space is the Place) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fade Out (Audio CD)

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.