Loop

''Dinked Edition' is on 'purple / orange / red' coloured vinyl. Includes an exclusive Robert Hampson signed 12" x 12" print and a 24" x 24" folded poster. Packaged with a Dinked Archive obi-strip and gold-foil sticker. Numbered /500. For avoidance of doubt, the centre is a standard spindle size, and not dinked.

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.