Since their inception, the music of the Californian band around husband and wife team Hannah Hooper and Chris Zucconi has become more and more random. With a mixture of indie rock in the style of the nineties, punk exuberance and bombastic electro-pop, Grouplove flatter themselves on their new album at the party glow stick swinging arena audience.
Grouplove clearly lacks its own signature
“All” is artificially upset about social envy. The sound is trimmed to Arcade Fire and The War On Drugs. Elsewhere one believes oneself in a swarm of festival sound waves between Tame Impala, Pixies and MGMT. At least the sweet act of desperation “Tryin’” and the relaxed, grooving “Francine” know how to please. But Grouplove clearly lacks its own signature.
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