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Sonancy

Loop

Sonancy

Fourth album and first in 32 years from the reformed English drone / psych-rock band

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Reactor
UK Release date
25/03/2022
US Release date
25/03/2022
  1. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Hampson is the sole constant member, and deserves much credit for this fine return to the fray. Sonancy will be sonic catnip to long-standing fans. Curious new ears will also be won over
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  2. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Sonancy is an album full of evolutionary leaps. Subtle shifts that signal an ongoing process of refinement
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    The creeping lurch and distressed fuzz damage of final track "Aurora" bring the likenesses and differences of previous phases of the band into clear focus, closing out Sonancy with a sound that could fit anywhere in the Loop discography but feels especially visceral, more dynamic than ever, and somehow new
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  4. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    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
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  5. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    With less decay and bleed coming from the guitars, Sonancy benefits from a greater degree of separation in its instrumentation. Consequently, every track gets to breath
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  6. 7.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    Fully submerging their sound into the pool of post-punk, while still filtering it through the ambient space fuzz that made A Gilded Eternity such a gem
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  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Three decades since the sonic architects’ last album, a band thought to be done and dusted return with a new collection that is distinctly them
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