★★★★★
If you've ever pondered the question 'What would Arcade Fire have sounded like if no-one had ever died?', time to get acquainted with Grouplove. Such is their dedication to upbeat party-starting, this Los Angeles college pop band has even done the voguish thing and gone electro for album number two. Luckily, no amount of squelchy beats, dubstep bass, trip-hop crackles and gabba breakdowns can suppress their effervescent sense of melody: see the likes of 'Shark Attack' and 'I'm With You', which...
- www.nme.com
2014-02-18
★★★★★
Tweet Grouplove's Rumours' Spirit Grouplove is a band on the move. After meeting at an artists' retreat in 2009, they exploded on the scene with a self-titled EP the following year and signed a record deal and released their first album a year later. Tracks from Never Trust a Happy Song found their way up the modern rock charts, as well as into iPod commercials and an episode of Glee...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-09-29
★★★★★
Listening to the album Spreading Rumours, was my first proper exposure to the indie band, Grouplove. The band is full of talent with guitar, bass, drums and keys and the added bonus of both a female and male vocalist: Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi. I can't say I absolutely hated the album but it left me confused with a headache. Grouplove seems to captivate their listener through hypnotic rhythms and repetition; each song echoes the song titles, the chorus, vowels and silly sounds...
- tangiblesounds.com
2013-09-27
★★★★★
Grouplove make shaggy arena rock for the pool-skating set, like Arcade Fire with a seventh-grade sense of humor. Their second LP retains the goofy amiability of their debut and cranks the Nineties influences - "Raspberry" is the best Pixies song since 1991, and the loopy "Hippy Hill" downshifts into a sludgy bridge after Christian Zucconi makes a bold proclamation: "I'd rather be a hippie than a hipster."
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
With Spreading Rumours, the L.A.-based quintet serves up a second massive helping of kinetic, kaleidoscopic pop. The album's dizzying array of sounds and textures seamlessly incorporates styles as diverse as alt-rock and contemporary EDM, making an elegant dance out of the tightrope walk between glossy radio pop and rough-hewn indie rock...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-09-17
★★★★★
Indie-pop fanatics rejoice, LA hedonists Grouplove are back. With their first release since 2011?s debut, Never Trust A Happy Song, new record Spreading Rumours is set to similarly bother charts and infect the masses with a serious case of the boogies. Spawning hit singles like 'Tongue Tied' and 'Colours', the quirky five-piece obviously have a knack for kooky, jerky synthpop and the kind of hooks that ricochet inside your skull like a kangaroo on Red Bull...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-09-17
★★★★★
One of the best neo-post-punk bands to emerge from the indie rock landscape in the wake of MGMT's success, Los Angeles' Grouplove brought catchy, buoyant melodicism to their 2011 debut, Never Trust a Happy Song. The band's sophomore follow-up, 2013's Spreading Rumours, is an equally kaleidoscopic if more focused album that retains all of the touchstones that made their previous release so engaging...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-09-29
★★★★★
Grouplove can be considered an act only too perfect for summer festivals, and upcoming second album Spreading Rumours is yet another example of that. The bright rock tracks they produce, along with group-sung choruses and danceable beats create just the atmosphere for fans to get excited for the warmer months. Opener "I'm With You", builds from a light introduction into an absolute force of sound, then back to nothing. The drums provide a solid beat, but also mixes it up at the same time...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-09-12
★★★★★
Many members of the L.A. quintet Grouplove have had their bodies emblazoned with "Grouplove" tattoos, so they're nothing if not committed to the project. That full-bore, all-in approach comes through in their songs, too: Like Grouplove's ingratiating debut (2011's Never Trust a Happy Song), the new Spreading Rumours positively brims over with scrappy, happy, sinewy little earworms...
- www.kcrw.com
2013-09-09
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