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Leaving Belle & Sebastian on the eve of mainstream popularity was a brave move by onetime bass player Stuart David. As the driving force behind Looper, he's proved that he has a lot of his own ideas to offer. THE GEOMETRID takes up where his debut album UP A TREE left off. The slinky trip-hop atmosphere is still intact, but this time the production is meatier, possibly due to Looper's mutation into a permanent four-piece band.
Kicking off in energetic style with the house-influenced "Mondo 77," THE GEOMETRID is something of a celebration of technology. "Modem Song" tells the story of an email from a Japanese friend, with words set to the atonal bleeps of a modem. "Tomorrow's World" and "My Robot" deal with the gap between futuristic fantasies and real life. Elsewhere there's gentle summer pop ("These Things"), and the '60s-inspired funkiness of "Money Hair." David plays the sensitive outsider card throughout, with a mixture of charm and playfulness.
Looper: Stuart David, Karn David, Ronnie Black, Scott Twynholm.
Additional personnel: Karla Valderama, Jodi (vocals).
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Q (6/00, p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...An eyebrow-raising mish-mash of cheap keyboard and guitar sounds and DIY grooves....an awkward, yet occasionally beautiful listening experience."
Alternative Press (7/00, p.102) - 4 out of 5 - "...Full of wacky noises and sampled beats...we find a charmingly nanve blend of light techno sounds and bleepy analog synths bouncing along with effortlessly catchy melodies and Stuart David's breathy vocals..."
Magnet (6-7/00, p.80) - "...Featherweight pop songs wrapped in lengthy discourse....[Stuart and Karn] David can't help but write catchy tunes once in a while..."
CMJ (5/8/00, p.28) - "...A genius slab of shambolic big beat that casually wipes the floor with anything we've heard lately out of Mr. Fatboy Slim....stitching together wildly incongruous styles into an accidentally cohesive album that succeeds..."
Melody Maker (5/9/00, p.51) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...An album of surprises....you get Stuart [David's] soft weird, storybook prose....[and] the twiddlings and whirrs of clonky ancient technology...:
Mojo (Publisher) (7/00, p.118) - "...Souffle-light concoction of tape-loops, odd samples and fey vocals. At their best, the tracks...are charmingly consumptive little objects imbued with the melancholic ecstasy of summer evenings and childhood sadness..." Looper Geometrid Songs | 1. | Mondo '77 | $0.99 | |
| 2. | On the Flipside | $0.99 | |
| 3. | Modem Song | $0.99 | |
| 4. | Uncle Ray | $0.99 | |
| 5. | Puddlemonkey | $0.99 | |
| 6. | These Things | $0.99 | |
| 7. | Bug Rain | $0.99 | |
| 8. | My Robot | $0.99 | |
| 9. | Tomorrow's World | $0.99 | |
| 10. | Money Hair | $0.99 | |
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