{"title":"The Love Language","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased originally in North Carolina and now in Los Angeles, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Love Language\u003c\/strong\u003e was formed in Raleigh in 2008 by singer-songwriter Stuart McLamb. The band features a rotating cast of talented musicians who never fail to impress. McLamb has established his band as an extroverted community art project made by responsible citizens of a loosely packed scene who know that he will match whatever they contribute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-love-language-ruby-red","title":"The Love Language - Ruby Red","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFriends and fans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Love Language\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e songwriter and frontman Stuart McLamb have learned to expect a lot, but rarely in a timely manner. Completing a triumvirate of spiritual transmissions spent lost (2009’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/the-love-language\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Love Language\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and found (2010’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-love-language-libraries\" http:=\"\" www=\"\" mergerecords=\"\" com=\"\" store=\"\" store_detail=\"\" php=\"\" catalog_id='710\"'\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibraries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), 2013’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuby Red\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e exorcises the transient brilliance fostered by McLamb within the sheetrock walls of the album’s namesake artist space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeaturing over twenty musicians and straddling several time zones, McLamb borrowed heavier equipment, and held on to it longer. Initiated in a windowless unit at the fabled Ruby Red, several failed attempts and false starts at a songwriting spree landed McLamb and his engineer\/case worker\/boxing coach BJ Burton in Black Mountain, North Carolina, consuming every square inch of a carpeted bungalow located a few acres too close to their skittish neighbors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuby Red\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e produces new standards for the Carolina pop songbook, finding The Love Language as an extroverted community art project made by responsible citizens of a loosely packed scene who know that McLamb will match whatever they contribute.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP includes a coupon for a full download.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52739166273847,"sku":"MRG436LP","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52739166241079,"sku":"MRG436CD","price":13.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739166208311,"sku":"MRG436digital","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/a550ffbb23669dca2a90cd3918520f7825473e1d_feb0ff5dcd45e9f74c9260a5626dbe8b804ba08c_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785380280"},{"product_id":"the-love-language-libraries","title":"The Love Language - Libraries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/the-love-language\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Love Language\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eLibraries\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cem\u003eLibraries\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe digital version comes with five demo versions of songs from \u003cem\u003eLibraries\u003c\/em\u003e, recorded in the lo-fi style as the band's eponymous debut--direct to four-track from bedroom studio. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52739171680567,"sku":"MRG366LP","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52739171746103,"sku":"MRG366CD","price":13.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739171713335,"sku":"MRG366digital","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/48f872547a3fdcd2f896e69d421fe705f6f9ab67_c62f4077a2a3b78d8d5d7a5e56da71539f5ae1ac_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785380463"},{"product_id":"the-love-language-baby-grand","title":"The Love Language - Baby Grand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD: \u003c\/strong\u003eHoused in a 4-panel digipak with 8-page lyric booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP: \u003c\/strong\u003eBlack vinyl packaged in a black paper dust sleeve, inside a double gatefold jacket with full lyrics. Includes digital download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeak Vinyl:\u003c\/strong\u003e Limited-edition pressing on pink-and-yellow marble vinyl. Includes digital download plus two non-album bonus tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003e+++\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Love Language’s\u003ci\u003e Baby Grand\u003c\/i\u003e has its share of breakup songs—nobody writes those better than Stuart McLamb—but this time, even as something is being mourned, something else is being worked through; as lovers have been left behind, so have places and a time in life. Listen as the heartbreak and yearning of “New Amsterdam” come crashing down into the beautiful stasis of “Southern Doldrums,” or as the beautiful lift of the startling sequence of songs that make up \u003ci\u003eBaby Grand\u003c\/i\u003e’s propulsive midsection gives way to a moody instrumental called “Rain\/Delay,” a collection of distant plinks and plonks struggling to assemble themselves into melody. The song “Juiceboxx” is what you’d get if Mick Jagger crooned his “Emotional Rescue” falsetto over a backing track by the Style Council, and “Let Your Hair Down” impressively suggests what “Caroline, No” might have sounded like if only it had been written by George Michael.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"Peak Vinyl","offer_id":52739215655223,"sku":"MRG596lp-C1","price":21.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":52739215556919,"sku":"MRG596LP","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739215622455,"sku":"MRG596digital","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/9307a286b7f56dfce89836c6a7cabadebc24dcb4_a28a6f1b03cdc0628f95f58df1996adfc0cbf3ac_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785381353"},{"product_id":"the-love-language-the-love-language-reissue","title":"The Love Language - The Love Language (Reissue)","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn The Love Language’s most recent tour opening for \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/teenage-fanclub\"\u003eTeenage Fanclub\u003c\/a\u003e, we played for lots of fresh ears, many of whom came to the merch table after the show and asked, “If you had to pick one, which of your albums is your favorite?” That’s a very tough question, like trying to pick a favorite child. While it’s hard to call it “best,” it’s impossible to deny that our self-titled record is and will always be the most sentimental to me. It’s where it all started. A collection of “demos” posted every couple months on Myspace between 2007 and 2008 until we were signed to our first label, Portland, Oregon’s Bladen County Records, who compiled them all as a full LP in 2009. The songs came effortlessly, and each one was recorded by a mobile multitrack recorder in various rooms (storage spaces, the back office of a record store, living rooms) throughout North Carolina literal hours after it was conceived. There’s a freshness and vitality to these songs that I hope, but don’t expect, to recapture again. It’s the sound of a songwriter discovering their voice in real time. The record has been out of print on vinyl for a few years now, and I’m excited to reissue it with some slight updates to the original packaging with my friends at Merge Records!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:right;\"\u003e—\u003ci\u003eStuart McLamb, March 2019\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"Peak Vinyl (Sunny Yellow)","offer_id":52739225190711,"sku":"MRG686lp-C1","price":21.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739225223479,"sku":"MRG686digital","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/8bb282dadaa00f4090c2d8c6e001b29f212e2829_2fd144e44c0206d63b5c825c89b6709f1138a147_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785381503"},{"product_id":"the-love-language-black-mt-demos","title":"The Love Language - Black Mt. 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