Looper Reveals New Track + Never Before Seen Belle & Sebastian Video

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THESE THINGS 5 CD BOX SET, INCLUDING BRAND NEW ALBUMOFFGRID:OFFLINE OUT APRIL 14 LISTEN TO NEW LOOPER TRACK  “OUTRO (TIPTOE HOME)” VIA FADER STUART DAVID’S BOOK - IN THE ALL-NIGHT CAFÉ (A MEMOIR OF BELLE & SEBASTIAN’S FORMATIVE YEAR) OUT MAY 1 WATCH THE NEW VIDEO FOR STUART DAVID'S PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BELLE & SEBASTIAN TRACK, “PAPER BOAT”

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Looper are set to release a 5 CD box set, These Things, on April 14, 2015. The box set collates tracks from their entire catalogue including tracks from the brand new album, Offgrid:Offline. Listen to new track “Outro (TipToe Home)” from Offgrid:Offline via FADER here. Looper emerged from Belle & Sebastian in 1997, when Stuart David (co-founder and bass player of B&S) and his wife Karn (an artist who directed the early B&S videos) collaborated for a show at Glasgow School of Art. A degree show fundraiser for Stuart's sister Karla Black - who received a Turner Prize nomination in 2011- the performance was a multi-media affair incorporating TVs, super 8 film, 35mm slides and kinetic sculptures. Since nothing broke down and everyone clapped, they decided to keep doing it. The These Things box set coincides with the release of Stuart David’s latest book, In The All-Night Cafe, a memoir of Belle and Sebastian's formative year, (out on May 1 via Chicago Review Press, for further information please click here). To celebrate, Karn David has created a video for the previously unreleased Belle & Sebastian studio recording, “Paper Boat,” written by Stuart David in 1997. The video features footage shot in ’98 when Neil Robertson (the then B&S manager) took Stuart Murdoch, Isobel Campbell, Stuart and Karn David, to Banchory, Aberdeenshire for a wee trip... Watch the video for Belle & Sebastian’s “Paper Boat” here. In an inventive reinterpretation of 'The Boxset,' Looper have curated the database of their entire body of work as five separate CDs, themed by type and entitled lexiphonics, kinokraft, voxtrot, transmitte andmelos (full tracklisting below). Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, who helped the band out of a jam in 1999, provides further sleeve notes. When the batteries in a sampler ran out during a show in LA a member of the audience came to their rescue, running out to fetch a pack of AAs. Looper later heard Tim had been their unlikely hero, but it seemed so preposterous they dismissed the idea. Tim professes his love of Looper here: “I wasn't even exactly sure where the music came from: the past, the present, the future, another life or a parallel universe but it totally chimed with what I loved - a starkness attached to the glitches and bleeps but a real go get 'em soul to go alongside that.”

THESE THINGS – 5 CD BOX SET Lexiphonics n. Spoken narratives accompanied by sample-based or electronic music, usually structured like a traditional pop song. [from Gk lexis: word, phonein: to make sounds, speak] Kinokraft n. A form based around a looped riff. Vocals, when present, are usually sampled fragments- used as counter riffs. [from Gk kinemat: movement, Br craft: skill, art] Voxtrot n. A hybrid form, combining elements of the 'lo-fi' pop song with the production and beats of hip hop and R&B. [from L vox: voice, Br trot: to move} Transmitte n. A hybrid form, combining the 'lo-fi' pop song with arrangements and beats from all fields of electronica. [from Gl.* transmitter: send out signals, broadcast] Melos n. A form in which the song is central. Elements from 1960s Easy Listening, Pop and Soul are combined using contemporary techniques and production. [from Gk. melos: song, tune] *Glitch

OFFGRID:OFFLINE TRACKLISTING Intro (Down The Lane) What If…? Waiting For Trains Oh, Skinny Legs Offgrid:Offline Farfisa Song I'm A Photograph Images Of The Shipwreck The Lucky Bird Outro (TipToe Home)   Listen to an 11 track Introduction to Looper here. Listen to “Farfisa Song” here. Watch the new video for “Mondo 77” here.