Loopcode - Back To Where It Ends
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In spring 2008 the first EP of a Swedish project Loopcode saw the light of day. Back To Where It Ends consists of the title song in three different versions, and also a bonus Escape, which they – as they described on their website – "love and want to give us a chance to hear it". Members of Loopcode are: a music producer introducing himself as Dee and the invited guests - in Back To Where It Ends the given belong to: Mats Sköld and Therese Åkesson. With their music they want to shift the listener to the world of pop melodies and trip-hop rhythms.
The first sounds of Back To Where It Ends already revealed me that this track will not be as trip-hop as I expected. Nice, male voice bringing to mind synthpop productions, combined with quite chillout electronics, gives us slightly dreamy but quite original mixture. A minus of the production is too excessive recurrence of the subject – little difference between the stanzas and the chorus, lack of any changes in a mood of the track, its rhythm or way of playing causes an impression of duplicating on and on the same motive. From the three versions placed on the rekord the one I liked best is pH version which distinguishes from others with a hidden, subtle rhythmics and drawing out sound blurs creating a very pretty, atmospheric background for the vocal.
In Escape we hear a female voice, not much melodic, devoid of emotions, associating with electroclash atmospheres. The piece catches the ear, though unfortunately again this time musically not enough happens. Thus I have exactly the same reservation as about Back To….
The summary of the EP is then like this: the tracks are nice to listen, however, to me they’re half-baked, too simple, which is a pity, because there is a potential.
In October the same year there was the second single released, Lovesong – trip-hop cover of The Cure’s hit song.
Tracklist:
1. Back To Where It Ends [feat. mats sköld]
2. Escape [demo version]
3. Back To Where It Ends [pH version]
4. Back To Where It Ends [cut and amplified]
The first sounds of Back To Where It Ends already revealed me that this track will not be as trip-hop as I expected. Nice, male voice bringing to mind synthpop productions, combined with quite chillout electronics, gives us slightly dreamy but quite original mixture. A minus of the production is too excessive recurrence of the subject – little difference between the stanzas and the chorus, lack of any changes in a mood of the track, its rhythm or way of playing causes an impression of duplicating on and on the same motive. From the three versions placed on the rekord the one I liked best is pH version which distinguishes from others with a hidden, subtle rhythmics and drawing out sound blurs creating a very pretty, atmospheric background for the vocal.
In Escape we hear a female voice, not much melodic, devoid of emotions, associating with electroclash atmospheres. The piece catches the ear, though unfortunately again this time musically not enough happens. Thus I have exactly the same reservation as about Back To….
The summary of the EP is then like this: the tracks are nice to listen, however, to me they’re half-baked, too simple, which is a pity, because there is a potential.
In October the same year there was the second single released, Lovesong – trip-hop cover of The Cure’s hit song.
Tracklist:
1. Back To Where It Ends [feat. mats sköld]
2. Escape [demo version]
3. Back To Where It Ends [pH version]
4. Back To Where It Ends [cut and amplified]
