Grouplove EP

• Posted: Sat 19 Feb 2011
• By: Kev

Far too often at the moment I pull out a press release, read a list of similar sounding influences, put the CD into the machine and snore my way through bands that are being hyped as the next big thing, when in reality they sound like a 100 other bands that are around at the moment.

Occasionally though you get the odd group that just leaves you beaming all over and reaching for the play button time and time again. The latest group to manage that feat are Grouplove.

A five piece band from Los Angelese (although two of the band members are actually from Brooklyn), they've managed to deliver a near perfect debut EP here, with all six tracks containing enough quality to be singles in their own right.

Pleasingly they have so much variety across the tracks, opener Colours is an obvious highlight as it's dizzyingly infectious, flouncing between a sound that Delta Spirit embody and a pop sensibility, but its all done with an edge and a loose hung structure that cements it as one of my favourite tracks of the last twelve months.

While Colours is immediately pleasing on the ear, tracks like Naked Kids (with some lovely vocal interchanges) and Goldcoast take longer to seep in,  but are all the better for it. Don't Say Oh Well will have you tapping along for definite with it's strrum along jangle and they close the EP off with Get Giddy, a beautiful broken ballad.

Simply stunning stuff and i'm not tiring of playing this over and over yet...in fact I doubt I ever will...more please....and quick if you can Grouplove.