Our team of writers share their thoughts and feelings about music they, generally, like. Where possible, we present tracks for you to listen, download, and decide for yourself. Register with groovemine.com to join the discussion below and throughout the site.



There Is Love In You by Four Tet
TEXT: ALEC BRINEGAR
For over a decade, Kieran Hebden has been pushing out a deeply textured thinking man’s brand of electronic knob twiddling under the moniker Four Tet. And while every effort he’s released into the wild has more or less succeeded to varying degrees...  [continue reading]


Romance is Boring
by Los Campesinos!
TEXT: RAYMOND CHALMÉ
From the very first notes of "In Medias Res", the opening track of Romance Is Boring, one can see a profound change in Los Campesinos! Whereas their first two albums opened with cheery glockenspiels...  [continue reading]


Ylajali by Syntaks
TEXT: NEIL LEVENS
There's something very gratifying that happens when listening to a piece of music, and your right brain manages to catch up to your left after thirty minutes and inquires, 'what am I listening to, here?'. Danish-duo Syntaks seem to throw too many influences...  [continue reading]

Eyelid Movies >> Phantogram
The biggest problem with the perfect storm created by the proliferation of cheap and powerful music production software merging with a maturing generation...  [continue reading]



Heartland >> Owen Pallett
It has become clear to me as I review more albums that I can generally tell how I’m going to feel about an album within the first 10 seconds of the first track. It will...  [continue reading]



Been Meaning to Tell You >> Ernest Gonzales
What might catch you right out of the gate about Been Meaning to Tell You is its simplicity, and just how charming simplicity can sometimes be. Blurring the line...  [continue reading]



Levantine Indulgence >> Gaida
It's oftentimes a difficult task to find a record that not only reconciles two (or more) distinctive styles, but does it naturally and seemingly without effort. New York's Gaida...  [continue reading]



Real Life is No Cool >> Lindstrøm and Christabelle
Hans-Peter Lindstrøm is one of those names in modern electronic music that carries a certain cache. When a random remix is adorned with that name featuring the...  [continue reading]



Contra >> Vampire Weekend       
The modern day rock star job description states that, one must look, sound and act like ridiculous, pretentious caricatures of themselves, at all times. Some have a deep...  [continue reading]



Love 2 >> Air
With good reason, AIR have been critical darlings for the better part of a decade. Each new album is highly anticipated and from fashion show runways to indie film...  [continue reading]



Popular Songs >> Yo La Tengo
There is something to be said for a band that has been around for a quarter of a century, and still has the spark to create great music. Yo La Tengo has not only survived... [continue reading]



Warm Heart of Africa >> The Very Best
In 2008, a British team of producers joined forces with a vibrant Malawian singer to create a mixtape. The foreign yet soulful vocals mixed nicely with the bright...  [continue reading]



The Music Scene >> Blockhead
"This sounds like New York," I hear myself utter over the low grooves, rough samples and vinyl crackle of Tony Simon's (aka Blockhead's) 2009 instrumental...  [continue reading]



Letting Up Despite Great Faults >> (self-titled debut)
Robots don't generally have emotions. They whir incessantly, their circuitry sparking as a sign of response. So when I first heard the opening chords of "In Steps"...  [continue reading]



Machine Dreams >> Little Dragon
It used to be that buying an album was a far more serious experiment. Often it involved throwing down a chunk of change for 12 tracks that in some cases, were all pretty...  [continue reading]



Harvest Festival >> Joe Goddard
So if you’re a Hot Chip fan looking to Joe Goddard’s big solo debut with high hopes that he’ll be turning out an album jammed to the gills with quirky electro pop and goofy...  [continue reading]



Machinarium Soundtrack >> Tomas 'Floex' Dvorak
While often overlooked by musical connoisseurs, some of the most intriguing and rewarding sounds can often be encountered through audio design intended for a visual...  [continue reading]



Continent >> CFCF
Sometimes when you’re having a few friends over and it’s not one of those “get out the fog machine because I’m pouring a jug of grain alcohol in the punch” parties, but...  [continue reading]



Music for Memory >> Roberto Carlos Lange
Roberto Carlos Lange's Music for Memory is sort of what it would sound like if you were thrown out into one of the most culturally and artistically...  [continue reading]



Logos >> Atlas Sound
With almost no disclaimers, Logos is a winner from start to finish and essentially proves as undisputable fact what we’ve all thought about Bradford Cox for the last few... [continue reading]



Baby Darling Face Honey >> Band of Skulls
The trio Band of Skulls met while in college in Southampton, London and quickly made their presence known throughout the local art and music community. Through a...  [continue reading]



Mountain Debris >> A Grave With No Name
The power of the LP, when harnessed, has always been its ability to bring a listener into the world of the artist, on the artist's own terms. One would leave the experience... [continue reading]



After Robots >> BLK JKS
Johannesburg outfit BLK JKS have achieved a very difficult feat this year: they've made an engaging, inspiring and fresh rock record. This may seem like a sweeping...  [continue reading]



Up to No Good >> Birds & Batteries
The band’s decision to ditch the twang and start slapping out purified funk will likely draw a few “derivative hack” pot shots. And it’s not without base—one might liken the band’s...  [continue reading]



Islands >> The Mary Onettes
The first vocals that roll off the second LP by The Mary Onettes like a steamroller don't bring me back to the usual comparisons but to elsewhere. When I first heard this I had a flashback to...  [continue reading]



Bonfires on the Heath >> The Clientele
With Bonfires on the Heath, The Clientele has managed to assemble a collection of tracks that exude extreme levels of both phenomena. One listen and you have an uncontrollable...  [continue reading]



East of Eden >> Taken By Trees
Being of Syrian Jewish descent, hearing Middle Eastern music is nothing new to me. The instrumentation is always similar, the words are unintelligible chatter in...  [continue reading]



Yankee Reality >> Hush Arbors
It’s weird when new music these days sounds good. I’m not obsessed with the indie scene, but I've been surprised with the output of quality: there’s some impressive...  [continue reading]



In and Out of Control >> The Raveonettes
To understand In and Out of Control is to know that this album (and the better part of the Raveonettes back catalog) is the really awesome soundtrack to the lives of...  [continue reading]



Psychic Chasms >> Neon Indian
Alan Palomo is our first truly postmodern pop star, the sub rosa idoru whose peripatetic sojourn to stardom—a couple of tracks here, an EP there, evasiveness everywhere...  [continue reading]



Truce Opium >> Dark Meat
I think my biggest complaint with Dark Meat’s new album Truce Opium is that it’s too short. Even after the twelve minute monk/Indian-like chanting big finale called “Song of...  [continue reading]



Riceboy Sleeps >> Jónsi & Alex
For anyone who has ever listened to Sigur Rós, you know what you're getting into. The beautiful, spirits-soaring glee, the delicately placed chord against the backdrop...  [continue reading]



XX >> The xx
Thou shalt not feign integrity. This is commandment number one in any post-punk, angst-filled band’s rulebook. Creating an original and atmospheric musical mood...  [continue reading]