Independent but stronger together.
Independent but stronger together.
We did tell you it was a big one, some serious weight in the vaults! 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.
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+ 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 550 *
* EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
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)