One year, single, novel, tour and Belle & Sebastian album later, Stuart David releases his second Looper LP. You get: wee stories, squelchy beats, car-chase guitars and beatbox pop. The best use of internet dial-up sounds yet, too. More power … [cont…]

Ex-Belle & Sebastian founding bassist’s second offering of millennial magic. Now Stuart David has officially left Belle & Sebastian, he’ll be able to devote more time to what was previously a side project. Formed with his wife, Karn, Looper are … [cont…]

The Belle & Sebastian off-shoot act dive into some kind of cheap mutant disco/ska that wouldn’t be played at either a disco or ska night. Nevertheless the verve with which they do it makes it kinda groovy, particularly on the … [cont…]

This is the first release from Stuart David’s Looper project following his recent department from Belle & Sebastian to concentrate on Looper. Mondo ’77 is a jaunty piano-fuelled track, which bodes well for the imminent second album.

The first Looper recording since main man Stuart David finally cut loose the apron strings from Belle & Sebastian, ‘Mondo ‘77’ is a fine slice of garage (as in actually recorded in a garage) dance music. A jaunty stomp of … [cont…]

Surprise from Belle & Sebastian-land in the form of – technology! A pulse, even! Love the rainy-day electricity, the dreamy boy vocals, the startling ‘it ain’t twee’ realisation – and that’s before getting to the Pulp remix.

Richard Madeley has a millennial bunker, apparently, and so does Keith Richards. Sometime Belle & Sebastian Stuart David doesn’t, and will be quite overjoyed when the whole of civilisation fizzes to a half on New Year’s morn, because it means … [cont…]

In which Stuart David does the impossible and writes a song about the Millennium, presently the last refuge of the inspirationally bankrupt, and conjures up a thing of bliss and wonder. Synths burble like new-born babes, David sighs like vintage … [cont…]

Pick of the month Renegade Belle & Sebastian member Stuart David runs amok with scratchy breakbeats, lo-fi electro-bleeps and loving wife in tow. Abandoning fey B&S musings in favour of wilful weirdness, this is a record which pairs tuneful pastoralism … [cont…]

In a project led by Belle & Sebastian bassist Stuart David, Looper deliver a lot of what other Scottish post-Trainspotting beats and spoken words merchants have long been promising to do. Dreamy tunes and delicate beats evoke memories of long-gone … [cont…]