Looper : The Snare
Snubbing the twee-hugging electronica of yore, 'The Snare' finds Looper in concept album territory; the "concept" being that sax is good, tunes is bad and seriousness is the new, um, frivolity. What we get, then, is the theme from 'Get Carter'...
Dublin 3345 Vicar St
Looper are very much a band looking for a platform that takes in more than just an audience of doe-eyed Belle & Sebastian fans, and all the better if that audience can dance, because Looper have the beats, and the neat visuals. But...
Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
As promising concepts go, it's up there with the sole-less shoe. Take one former Belle & Sebastian lackey (shambling, bespectacled Stuart David ), add his wife, Karn (for that cosy home-brewed 'vibe'), equip them with all manner of...
The Geometrid
Looper , the now full-time project of former B&S bassist Stuart David and wife Karn , may use a lot of electronics but they're actually in the strangely zealous tradition of lo-fi DIY indie. Looper are sending out musical signals from the...
Looper : Who's Afraid of Y2K?
Richard Madeley has a millennial bunker, apparently, and so does Keith Richards . Sometime Belle & Sebastian Stuart David doesn't, and will be quite overjoyed when the whole of civilisation fizzes to a halt on New Year's morn, because it...
London Covent Garden Rough Trade Shop
Is a hothouse flower any less or more beautiful because it can't survive outside its greenhouse? Looper are, of course, the cut'n'paste side project of Belle & Sebastian bassist Stuart David . And from the looks of things, B&S '...
Up A Tree
If the thought of child-song and tree houses curls your fingers into a fist, then Looper 's spaceboy dream is not for you. Chief Looper Stuart David is, after all, the Other Stuart in Belle & Sebastian (he actually wrote 'Spaceboy...
