A journal of long-form music writing

Published 2009 & 2012

Loops was a journal of long-form music writing published jointly by Faber & Faber and Domino Records, co-edited by Lee Brackstone and Richard King.

Its contributors included Nick Cave, Anwyn Crawford, Geeta Dayal, Mark Fisher, Lavinia Greenlaw, Owen Hatherley, Nick Kent, Hari Kunzru, Tim Lawrence, Paul Morley, Amanda Petrusich, Simon Reynolds and Jon Savage.

Loops offered a landscape for today's exceptional writers to engage with subjects, individuals and issues that colour all corners of the pop music world. Free from the shackles of release schedules, Loops provided a space for artists to publish tour diaries, non-sequiturs and think-pieces and an opportunity for writers to stretch out and go off-map to share their thoughts and ideas.

‘Here at last is a haven for adventurous long-form music writing of every sort: ruminations and rhapsodies, reported investigations and critical essays, pieces that range widely across time and genrescape, and others that focus intently on individual artists, songs, tiny moments of epiphany. As a writer and as a reader, I look forward to Loops with immense excitement.’ Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again