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Lovebox brings together [their] disparate elements in a convenient package, highlighting the knob-twiddlers' many talents.
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Lovebox veers more toward the rock and soul spectrum than previous efforts.
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Lovebox takes them much too far down the path of production gloss, right on into the field of bland MOR electronica.
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Q MagazineGroove Armada continue to have mislaid that sparkledust. [Dec 2002, p.105]
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'Lovebox' doesn't quite scale Vertigo's dizzy heights, but it'll be perfectly at home both in clubs and in your lounge.
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Entertainment WeeklyLovebox rarely disappoints. [24/31 Jan 2003, p.100]
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MojoA slick, clever and diverse set of populist dance and digi-rock songs. [Nov 2002, p.110]
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BlenderSimilar inventiveness [to that on debut album 'Vertigo'] has been markedly absent from the London duo's subsequent work, and sadly, Lovebox continues the trend. [#14, p.136]
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Alternative PressWith Lovebox, they do another about-face, dirtying up and slowing down their song-structured house tracks into a grimy soul/funk/house/hip-hop amalgam. [March 2003, p.94]
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UrbPositively dripping with crude funk. [Mar 2003, p.95]
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UncutA stew of funk noir and mashed-up rhythms--a little too mashed-up at times. [Dec 2002, p.130]
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MixerThe album's edgy urban vibe, psychedelia and reggae find the Armada merging all of their varied influences into a collection that pounces with monster grooves and purrs with low-slung downtempo tunes. [Jan 2003, p.72]
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The album's wanton schizophonia results in such a switched-on pileup of styles that Groove Armada have earned their own rubric -- call it electrocrash, and consider it great.
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Mar 16, 2021Not one song that disappoints. Madder and Easy being the most memorable of the bunch.
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JiggityMydiggityOct 16, 2004Oh my! This rocks! Soulful songs and grooving tracks. I would highly recommend it!
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WinduJun 24, 2003Not their best, but still a lot of fun to listen to. If you bought this and enjoy it, you should check out Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub).