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Loop: A Gilded Eternity (Situation Two)

Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 20 January 1990

IT'S CLEAR now that Loop peaked with their magnificent brace of EPs in 1988, Collision/Thief Of Fire and Black Sun/Mother Sky. Last year's Fade Out was just a consolidation of the first album (some would say, a reiteration). And lost month's drab, ungainly 'Arc-Lite' obviously heralded the proverbial "traumatic third album". Here it is.

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