Baby Grand The Love Language SKU: MRG596LP Barcode: 673855059617 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records Released Date: 3rd August 2018 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Pink & yellow marble vinyl (MRG596LPC1) is for Indies only. You may not be able to see the gorgeous landscapes behind Baby Grand, Stuart McLamb’s fourth record as The Love Language, but they’re so essential to the picture you’ll feel them in every note. Started in, of all places, a cavernous Virginia hammock factory, fragmentary demos came alive when splashed by sunshine during a move across the country to California, where the album was completed. “It was something just about being in a new city, and a new light,” McLamb says, “and reopening the sessions, and this demo that I thought was a throwaway, suddenly I’m really feeling it….” You can hear the freedom kick in when the backwoods country shuffle of “Castle in the Sky” explodes into a full-on aughts anthem. Yet so much lies in the shadows behind these tracks: other states, other lives, other dreams, other relationships—fogged over, perhaps, but there nonetheless. Yes, Baby Grand has its share of breakup songs but this time, even as something is being mourned, something else is being worked through. Listen as the heartbreak and yearning of “New Amsterdam” come crashing down into the beautiful stasis of “Southern Doldrums” (the former was inspired by Cyndi Lauper and Joy Division, McLamb claims, while the latter draws upon John Cale’s meditative solo records). “I’ve embraced the idea that getting murky is what the band is,” says McLamb of the various assemblies of players and the various genre influences that have fuelled The Love Language at different points in time. “I love bands like the Ramones that have one thing that really works, and I love a good restaurant that serves one really good dish. But I get bored… I want this album to showcase different types of pop songwriting and structures.” The song “Juiceboxx” is what you’d get if Mick Jagger crooned his “Emotional Rescue” falsetto over a backing track by the Style Council. But it’s the finale that sends Baby Grand into the stratosphere. With Raleigh in his rearview, McLamb dusts off the ’60s throwback sounds of The Love Language’s 2009 self-titled debut, which are all over the flat-out-perfect “Independence Day.” And somewhere around New Orleans, he resuscitates those irresistible singalong melodies from 2010’s Libraries on “Paraty,” the lovely paean to a South American town he never managed to visit. It’s gotta be close to the best thing McLamb has ever written, and it culminates this alternately ruminative and riotous record on, fittingly, a note of reflection: “We’ll be riding out this losing streak,” he sings, “and they say the tides are rising / It took a long time to get us where we can’t come back…” You can’t leave something behind without starting something new, and the inverse of that proposition is just as true: when you stand on the Pacific coast, squinting into the sunset, there’s an entire country at your back, unseen but ever-present, and it stays with you forever. Artist The Love Language Genre Rock And Pop Label Merge Records Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Frames New Amsterdam Southern Doldrums Juiceboxx Shared Spaces Paraty Independence Day Castle in the Sky Rain/Delay Let Your Hair Down Glassy Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from The Love Language and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View The Love Language Baby Grand – Indies Only Rock And Pop | Merge Records | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd August 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders The Love Language Baby Grand – Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG596LPC1 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ghost Culture Ghost Culture Rock And Pop | Because Music | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 5th January 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ghost Culture Ghost Culture £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Because Music SKU: BEC5161946 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 5th January 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Frank Sinatra Watertown Rock And Pop | UMC | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Poster Released 17th June 2022 £54.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Frank Sinatra Watertown £54.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 4533847 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Poster Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Falco Emotional (Remastered Version) Rock And Pop | Rhino | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th November 2021 £22.00 - £25.00 Select options Falco Emotional (Remastered Version) £22.00 - £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th November 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Jessie Ware What’s Your Pleasure Rock And Pop | Virgin | 1LP Released 26th June 2020 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jessie Ware What’s Your Pleasure £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin SKU: V3245 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Steve Miller Band Complete Albums Volume 2 (1977-2011) Rock And Pop | UMC | 9LP, Box Set Released 24th May 2019 £136.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steve Miller Band Complete Albums Volume 2 (1977-2011) £136.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 7729912 Formats: 9LP, Box Set Released Date: 24th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Luke Jenner 1 Rock And Pop | Manono Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th July 2020 £23.00 Select options Luke Jenner 1 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Manono Records Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th July 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View These New Puritans Expanded (Live At The Barbican) Rock And Pop | Vinyl Factory | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th October 2014 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders These New Puritans Expanded (Live At The Barbican) £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Vinyl Factory SKU: VF118 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Norah Jones …Little Broken Hearts Rock And Pop | Blue Note | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th August 2023 £50.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Norah Jones …Little Broken Hearts £50.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Blue Note SKU: nn269862 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 24th August 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Vaccines, The Combat Sports Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 1LP Released 30th March 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vaccines, The Combat Sports £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music SKU: 19075807351 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B Rock And Pop | Rough Trade | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th September 2022 £19.00 - £23.00 Select options Jockstrap I Love You Jennifer B £19.00 - £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rough Trade Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th September 2022 Read More Select options See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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