Loop - TWELVES
TWELVES is the first time vinyl pressing of remastered 12”/EP tracks from the iconic LOOP. Freshly compiled after original releases in the 80’s and 90’s on the Chapter 22 / Head / Situation 2 labels.
- Dinked Archive Edition Number 24
- Reactor Records
- Released: 25th April 2025
- Triple colour 3LP (LP1 purple, LP2 orange, LP3 red) *
- Robert Hampson (Loop) signed 12” x 12” print of new sleeve artwork *
- 24” x 24” folded poster *
- Dinked Archive obi-strip & gold foil sticker *
- Limited, numbered pressing of 500 *
- EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
“I’ve always been very vocal about not liking scenes”
Features: Loop - TWELVES.
Loud And Quiet
Semi-invisible: LOOP, Spacemen 3, and UK psych’s hidden history.
Before shoegaze and acid house, a dysfunctional wave of British guitar bands were pursuing a psychedelic horizon all of their own – and then it all imploded.
Formed in South London in the mid-1980s by Robert Hampson, 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. As critics enthused at the time, Loop were the sound of Suicide jamming with the Stooges aboard a spaceship built by Hawkwind and piloted by CAN. They were post-psychedelic, pre-shoegaze figureheads in a world of anodyne pop jangle and baggy rhythms, and even their closest contemporaries like Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine didn’t plough such a distinctive furrow as theirs.
• 16 Dreams 12” (Head) released 1986
• Spinning 7” /12” (Head) released 1987
• Collision 7”/12” (Chapter 22) released 1988
• Black Sun 12” (Chapter 22) released 1988
• Arc-Lite 7”/12”/CD5 (Situation 2) released 1989
• Primsma Uber Europa 12” (Beggars) released 1991 (Live Promo only)