• Record Label: ATP
  • Release Date: Jul 24, 2015
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Jul 27, 2015
    70
    The EP leads with a pair of sludgy pysch jams, decelerates for the slightly abrasive "drumless space" of "Coma," and closes with the side-long "Radial," which begins and ends with shifting drones that flank seven minutes of searing menace that recall early, "the Can"-era Can.
  2. Jul 24, 2015
    80
    Like its celebrated, quarter-century old predecessor, Array 1 is the culmination of the group’s furious fusion of psychedelic crunch, ambient moan and motorik vroom, and a reminder of just how brilliant Loop is and always was.
  3. Jul 10, 2015
    80
    Array 1 contains enough moments of unparalleled brilliance to make autumn's projected follow-up EP a mouthwatering prospect.
  4. Magnet
    Jul 10, 2015
    70
    All four of these tracks succeed in holding the listener's attention throughout. [No. 122, p.57]
  5. Q Magazine
    Jul 10, 2015
    40
    A missed open goal. [Aug 2015, p.110]
  6. Jul 21, 2015
    80
    Radial, a 17-minute symphony in three parts: first, a foreboding, dark-tinged awakening, replete with nonhuman sounds in the vocal register; after six minutes the band comes in with another trademark minor-key song; then a final, tense, otherworldly coda hinting at stranger worlds to come.
  7. Uncut
    Jul 10, 2015
    80
    Array 1 hints at unfinished business, picking up almost where A Gilded Eternity left off. [Aug 2015, p.76]
  8. Jul 23, 2015
    80
    Four tracks explore their studio space over 32 minutes, each progressively and intriguingly more experimental.

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