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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
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| 1. Soundhead |
| 2. Straight To Your Heart |
| 3. Forever |
| 4. Heavens End |
| 5. Too Real To Feel |
| 6. Fix To Fall |
| 7. Head On |
| 8. Carry Me |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. Rocket USA |
| 2. Soundhead (1st Mix) |
| 3. Head On (1st Mix) |
| 4. Soundhead (Peel BBC Live Version) |
| 5. Straight To Your Heart (Peel BBC Live Version) |
| 6. Rocket USA (Peel BBC Live Version) |
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Heavens end is the extremely overdue reissue of the long out of print album by British band, LOOP. Remastered from the original analogue sources, this album is released as a double discs and housed in a mini vinyl style card sleeve, reproducing the original artwork. The album in its entirety on CD 1, with the bonus tracks (including relevant Peel session material from the time) on CD 2, the bonus material will be available on CD formats only. Remastered by Robert Hampson at SoundMasters with Kevin Metlcalfe, Heavens End originall came out on the HEAD label in 1987, they recorded their first Peel session that year (on the bonus disc) and the album draws heavily from the likes of the Velvets, Stooges, and the MC5.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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oh my god finally this album is coming out and I feel like I'm a loop virgin anyway cos I didn't get to the revolution until this year - or last I don't remember - anyhow, this music if you don't know is like a maelstrom of guitars, constantly whirling in and out of the mix, such scathing acid timbres and cutting like a knife. There isn't any sordid sqwauking piercing your ears like maybe Sonic Youth or Comets on Fire - both of whom I'm huge fans of - but it hits the groove so finely that it sounds as if it's just about to tip over. The vocals, in the original mix, were sometime immersed under the velvet sea of punk noise but then you could hear him breathing fire in his hiss and it's so breathtaking. Played with repetitive precision, it's hypnotic and highly danceable. Originally was mastered quite softly, so you could register the burn when it went mental, but now we're gonna hear why they were called one of the loudest bands in the world man! Yeah! This is stuff of legend! Can't wait
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The first Loop record I ever picked up back in 1988, and still an astonishing example of hypnotic psych-drone that the likes of Warlocks and The Black Angels could only ever hope of emulating (and long may they continue to try...). The guitars on this first album shimmered and glistened far more than on any of their later albums, each of which is equally as astonishing, but all three are completely different from each other whilst still remaining undeniably recognisable as Loop. I can remember back in the late 80's when Sonic from Spacemen 3 was telling all and sundry that Loop had ripped off their sound, but even to the layman this was obviously a case of sour grapes - indeed, the only really truly similar sounding track in their catalog was 'Suicide', and that was on an album that came out nearly two years after "Heaven's End". As a point of interest, if you like that Spacemen track, then the title track off this album will blow you (and it, for t hat matter) out of the water!!! Honestly, it is because of this band that I looked up bands like Can, Faust, Neu!, The Pop Group, Suicide..., their influence on how I changed my viewpoint on what was important in music I will NEVER underestimate! This has been soooo due a reissue for so long, but finally those unlucky enough to have never previously heard (or even heard OF) Loop will have a chance to hear an album which actually changed my life, and those words are not used lightly!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
My first experience of Loop was when I saw them supporting Pop Will Eat Itself at Portsmouth Poly sometime in early 1987. The stage was dark, and only lit by an oil slide light show, a la Pink Floyd at the UFO Club or some other psychedelic happening, yet the sound and atmosphere was far darker and more oppressive - and Loop were ear-bleedingly LOUD. Only the vocalist faced the audience, as I recall. The guitarists faced the back of the stage. They played stuff like Burning World, Soundhead and other stuff off the not-yet-released first album. I had seen or heard nothing like them before, and they totally blew me away. Still remember it as one of the best gigs I've been to.
I since bought the 12" of 16 Dreams/Head On/Burning World when it came out, and Heaven's End upon release. Played loud and in a pitch black room was the ultimate Loop experience for me.
I read an interview with Loop once, where they noted that they'd been influenced by the composer Steve Reich. Like Reich's music, you can get right 'into' Loop's music, it's mantra-like, chant-like and totally immersing. Drone on.
I since bought the 12" of 16 Dreams/Head On/Burning World when it came out, and Heaven's End upon release. Played loud and in a pitch black room was the ultimate Loop experience for me.
I read an interview with Loop once, where they noted that they'd been influenced by the composer Steve Reich. Like Reich's music, you can get right 'into' Loop's music, it's mantra-like, chant-like and totally immersing. Drone on.
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no more orange choke
That Loop were Spacemen 3 disciples is not a matter for conjecture.They admitted as much,desirous of little more than having some fun making noise like their heroes. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2009 by andreas tangen
Guitar nirvana...heavens end in more than name.
Some time in 1987 I wandered into my local vinyl emporium in Halifax( "Groove" records,long gone alas) and started flicking through the new releases. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2009 by russell clarke
Long Overdue
A much anticipated re-issue of Loop's first full length. The second disc has three different mixes and three John Peel sessions --which can be found on Wolf Flow, happy hunting--... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2009 by K. McQueen
A Cult classic
A long overdue re-issue of Loops 3 studio albums and EP's is finally upon us, first up re-issues of their 1987 debut "Heavens End" (and 1988's "Fade Out") remastered, packaged in... Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2008 by R. CRAVEN
At last!
Worn out the groove in my LP copy so this re-issue is very welcome.
This album and the live shows at the time were terrific hypnotic events that took you away on a star... Read more
This album and the live shows at the time were terrific hypnotic events that took you away on a star... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2008 by W. Greenwood
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