Playlist
Grouplove Essentials
Apple Music Alternative
Tracks: 1974:41
Raucous indie pop that's hardly tongue-tied.
Updated Mar 24, 2023
Tracks 19
- 1I Want It All Right Now3:23
- 2This Is This3:38
- 3#hits the 2010s3:38
- 4Healer3:28
- 5Spreading Rumours3:35
- 6Colours - Single4:17
- 7Big Mess3:47
- 8Deleter - Single3:54
- 9The Fault In Our Stars (Music From the Motion Picture)3:59
- 10Spreading Rumours (Deluxe)3:58
- 11Itchin' On a Photograph - Single4:19
- 12Big Mess3:39
- 13Grouplove - EP4:54
- 14Big Mess3:51
- 15Never Trust a Happy Song3:30
- 16Spreading Rumours5:33
- 17Big Mess3:01
- 18Never Trust a Happy Song4:17
- 19Spreading Rumours3:50
About this playlist
Even with all their sun-kissed exuberance, there's a hint of melancholy lurking in this L.A. band's raucous indie pop. The title of their 2011 debut, Never Trust a Happy Song, says it all: While the clap-happy sing-along "Tongue Tied" has all the folk glee of an Edward Sharpe dance party, there's a love story there that never gets resolved. Lead vocalist Christian Zucconi trembles like The Cure's Robert Smith on boisterous rockers such as "Colours", but by boosting up the beat and turning on the glam for peppy synth-pop anthems like "Ways To Go" and "Good Morning", they shed some of that early cynicism.