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Libraries

MP3 (320kbps) more info $8.99
FLAC more info $11.49
CD $12.98
LP (w. DL coupon) more info $16.98
MRG366 | Release Date 2010
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The Love Language is a fortunate by-product of frontman North Carolina native Stuart McLamb's rudderless mid-20s, where a tempest of breakup, inebriation, and incarceration found the abandoned songwriter embarking on a storage-space recording project to slow his seeming disintegration. On sophomore effort Libraries, the equilibrium of frontman McLamb's madness and producer BJ Burton's discipline has rendered an album in the classic sense, in which no song is expendable and no passage is without purpose. Libraries captures Spector-esque walls of reckless sound, cavernous drums, middle-school percussion, and moody swells of stringed instruments, all decorated hastily with stray leads, which bleed beautifully all over everything.

The digital version comes with five demo versions of songs from Libraries, recorded in the lo-fi style as the band's eponymous debut--direct to four-track from bedroom studio. These tracks are also available individually below.

For a limited time, all orders for this album will come with a free copy of the Let's Wrestle / Love Language split 7-inch!



TRACK PLAY SONG TITLE DURATION PRICE MP3 TRACK
1 Pedals 04:38$0.99
2 Brittany's Back 03:06$0.99
3 This Blood Is Our Own 04:08$0.99
4 Summer Dust 03:43$0.99
5 Blue Angel 04:37$0.99
6 Heart to Tell 02:27$0.99
7 Anthophobia 03:06$0.99
8 Horophones 02:56$0.99
9 Wilmont 03:40$0.99
10 This Room 01:23$0.99
11 Heart to Tell (Demo) 02:31$0.99
12 Summer Dust (Demo) 03:31$0.99
13 Days in Love (Demo) 03:23$0.99
14 Blue Angel (Demo) 04:42$0.99
15 Brittany's Back (Demo) 03:09$0.99