| Looper |
|
| Background information |
| Origin |
Glasgow, Scotland |
| Genre(s) |
Electronic |
| Years active |
1998 |
| Label(s) |
None |
| Website |
looperama.com |
| Members |
Stuart
David
Karn David
Ronnie Black
Scott Twynholm |
Looper are a Scottish indie-pop band,
fronted by Stuart David, former Belle
and Sebastian bassist.
The band formed in 1998 for a show at the Glasgow
School of Art, and released their first single "Impossible Things" on
the Subpop
label a few months later.
Originally comprising of Stuart and his wife Karn (who was mainly responsible for
visual elements in the live shows, such as videos projections, super 8
films, kinetic sculptures and photographic projections), they soon
became a fully fledged band, adding Ronnie Black (guitarist) and Scott Twynholm (keyboards) to their
line up.
Their first full length album Up a Tree
(1999) was released on Subpop in the US and Jeepster in
the rest of the world, and was followed by The
Geometrid in 2000, on the same labels. After touring the US
for three months with The Flaming Lips in 2000 they
signed to Mute Records for five albums. They
recorded and released one, The Snare, and
then walked away from Mute; shocked by the conservative approach of the
once cutting-edge label, which sold itself to EMI during Looper's
tenure.
Since then, Looper have been releasing their music free to the
public at their Looperama website, funding this experiment by licensing
the use of their songs in high-profile Hollywood films and ad campaigns,
including the Tom Cruise film Vanilla
Sky, and the current Xerox campaign.
Other films their songs have appeared in include The
Edukators, The
Girl Next Door, Out
Cold, and Dog Park.
Their most famous song is probably "Mondo '77", this song is
featured in the film Vanilla Sky
along with the track "My Robot". Both of these tracks were taken from
Looper's second album The Geometrid, and "Mondo
'77" appeared on the "Vanilla Sky OST". "Mondo '77" also appears on the
American
Dad episode "All
About Steve". It has also been featured in American television
commercials for Xerox
and Partnership for
a Drug-Free America. The song "Burning Flies", from the album Up a Tree,
is part of the soundtrack to the Mission
Hill episode "Stories of Hope and
Forgiveness".
Discography
- Up a Tree
(1999)
- The Geometrid
(2000)
- The Snare (2002)
Side Projects
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