Sonancy

There is a sonic poetry and timelessness to this music that is hard to quantify. As if it comes from a distant galaxy and doesn’t answer to our concepts of time or space.

There's plenty here that's familiar from Loop's earlier releases - the fathomless drones, questing kosmiche and free-falling acid rock. But there's a sharper focus this time round, too.

With most cuts clocking in under five minutes, Sonancy's austere precision carries right through to its auteur's Chrome-esque robo voicing. Rarely has measured maturity led to such aurally altered states.

Sonancy is an album full of evolutionary leaps. Subtle shifts that signal an ongoing process of refinement.

Tumultuous, trippy and brilliantly untamed, Sonancy is a magnificent comeback.

Sonancy will be sonic catnip to long-standing fans. Curious new ears will also be won over. 

Sonancy orbits around the idea of Hampson’s that Loop can be anything he desires; it can be both a rock album and a meditative stasis album.

Today’s world won’t respond to Loop’s sonic architecture the way we did back then, but the conscious streamlining and concentrated conviction here justifies their reanimation.