Although Looper is a Belle and Sebastian side project, fans of the Scottish group's lush, wispy pop confections looking for similar sounds here will be sorely disappointed -- on his own, Stuart David rejects the ornate strings and horns of B&S in favor of electronic textures and trip-hop beats, and while there's a definite pop dimension to Up a Tree, it's secondary at best. The album is cut from the same cloth as David's "Spaceboy Dream" from B&S' The Boy with the Arab Strap, the lone bit of filler on an otherwise extraordinary record; his fascination with electronica reaches a much greater potential here, but there's still no shaking the feeling that Up a Tree was released thanks solely to its pedigree, and without regard to its actual merit.
Looper
Up a Tree
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AllMusic Review by Jason Ankeny
Track Listing
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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1 | Looper | 01:31 | Amazon | ||||
2 | Looper | 05:22 | Amazon | ||||
3 | Looper | 03:56 | Amazon | ||||
4 | Looper | 04:54 | Amazon | ||||
5 | Looper | 04:43 | Amazon | ||||
6 | Looper | 05:12 | Amazon | ||||
7 | Looper | 03:06 | Amazon | ||||
8 | Looper | 04:54 | Amazon | ||||
9 | Looper | 03:16 | Amazon | ||||
10 | Looper | 02:05 | Amazon |