Looper are a Scottish electronic music group fronted by Belle and Sebastian co-founder Stuart David.
They have released six albums, Up a Tree (1999), The Geometrid (2000), The Snare (2002), Offgrid:Offline (2015), Quiet & Small (2018), A Luminous Place (2023) and a 5-CD box set These Things (2015), as well as a series of EPs titled The MP3 EPs Looper emerged from Belle & Sebastian in 1997,[3] 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[5]- the performance was a multi-media affair incorporating TVs, super 8 film, 35mm slides and kinetic sculptures Their first album, Up a Tree, was released in 1999 on the Sub Pop label in the U.S. and by Jeepster Records in the rest of the world.
Since then, Looper have been releasing their music free to the public at their Looperama website, funding this experiment by licensing the use of their songs in high-profile Hollywood films and ad campaigns.
The song "Burning Flies", from the album Up a Tree, is part of the soundtrack to the Mission Hill pilot episode.