Album Review: Bibio - A Mineral Love

A Mineral Love was intended to be "a celebration" of Bibio's "love of the craft of record making".

On it, his diverse influences are poured into a pot and smelted into one gloopy strain of inoffensive, lounge-lite pop. The unpredictable edges of Bibio's early work have been taken off, and the whole thing glides down like some kind of toxic yacht rock that's reminiscent of '80s plastic soul merchants Johnny Hates Jazz or Jamiroquai on holiday. Someone tell him to stop reminiscing and get back to work.