With their recent releases (like Soundboy Rock), Groove Armada have been shedding the big beats and funky dance sensibilities which made tracks like Superstylin’ and Madder so exciting back in the day. The new album, Black Light, has none of the things that drew me to GA’s music in the first place and I absolutely hate it.

The cover art is simple, bold and completely appeals to my design sensibilities but the album contains too many stinkers. I literally went ‘WTF’ after the first few listens. Maybe after providing soundtracks to half of the world’s television commercials, they needed a break by trying other genres, but I digress…

I’ll just stick to the body of work that defined Groove Armada for me, which is all conveniently packaged into their 2004 Best of Groove Armada compilation.