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Thursday, March 28, 2024

"Spreading Rumours" by Grouplove is a different mix

One word to describe Grouplove’s latest album?

Unique.

Everything about "Spreading Rumours" presents it as one of the most diverse and well-put-together albums of the year. The album released on Sept. 17 reflects the individual members’ talents as well as their abilities to perform well as a whole.

Rocketing off of the momentum of their single “Ways to Go,” "Spreading Rumours" contains thirteen songs which all carry the same amount of zeal and flavor as Grouplove’s previous hits. While most long albums tend to lose power as they progress, "Spreading Rumours" shines on through the very last song “Save the Party for Me.”

But what makes the album so unique and likable?

The album starts off quietly, surreal, with the sound of the piano tinkering softly. Suddenly the song rises in volume. The music halts for a second and resumes introducing Christian Zucconi’s splintered croons. Other voices help form the prominent backbeat as Zucconi continues to belt out the lyric, his voice rising and falling in time. The song fluctuates several times, introducing a wide range of different sounds before smoothly transitioning to “Borderlines and Aliens.”

The band really utilizes Zucconi’s vocal abilities in order to create such varied and interesting songs. His voice constantly crescendos and decrescendos, rises and drops. It becomes the central instrument within the song riding on the diverse rhythm that the other instruments create. When Zucconi sings alone he reaches out to the listeners with his thin wispy, drawn out vocals, but when his voice joins with that of Hannah Hooper, the keyboardist, their voices mesh together, and the chemistry is clear between them.

Hannah Hooper’s vocals are more prominent in songs such as “Schoolboy” and “Shark Attack” in which she harmonizes with Zucconi to produce a fun, more exuberant song. Hannah Hooper really shines in “Didn’t Have To Go” in which she is the main vocalist singing about a lover who left her. Her soft effeminate voice offers a nice break from Zucconi’s deeper voice.

All of the songs contain some of the same elements such as catchy, infectious choruses and sunny personalities, but they are so diverse that each stands out against the rest. "Spreading Rumours" is an album that can be played over and over again on repeat and never get tiring. It is the remedy to a humdrum, uneventful day. 

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