View basket “Gaucho” has been added to your basket. 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 SPINN Outside Of The Blue Rock And Pop | Modern Sky | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 11th March 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders SPINN Outside Of The Blue £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Modern Sky SKU: M4782UKLPX Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 11th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joni Mitchell Court and Spark (US) Rock And Pop | Warner/Rhino | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 21st June 2013 £30.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Joni Mitchell Court and Spark (US) £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner/Rhino SKU: ARHI1001 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 21st June 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Gnod Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy Rock And Pop | Rocket Recordings | 2LP Released 7th May 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gnod Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rocket Recordings Released Date: 7th May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cocteau Twins Milk & Kisses Rock And Pop | Proper Records | 1LP Released 12th January 2024 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cocteau Twins Milk & Kisses £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Proper Records SKU: UMCLP083 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights Rock And Pop | Matador | 1LP Released 23rd October 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Matador SKU: OLE11291 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wedding Present, The Each Time You Open Your Eyes Rock And Pop | Clue Records | 7", Single Released 26th August 2022 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wedding Present, The Each Time You Open Your Eyes £12.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Clue Records SKU: CLUE108 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 26th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Doves Some Cities Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th November 2020 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Doves Some Cities £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 856872 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Vamps, The Cherry Blossom Rock And Pop | EMI | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th October 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vamps, The Cherry Blossom £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: EMI SKU: EMIV2020 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jethro Tull Aqualung Rock And Pop | Parlophone | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 22nd May 2015 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jethro Tull Aqualung £36.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Parlophone SKU: 00825646146604 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 22nd May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Neighbourhood, The Wiped Out! 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