Name: Baby Grand
Brand: The Love Language

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

mrg596cd

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Digipack.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-08-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0673855059624

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

mrg596lpc1

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Extended format: Yes

Pink and Yellow Marble Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

0673855059600

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Love Language

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Merge Records

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. 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 wasinspired by Cyndi Lauper and Joy Division, McLamb claims, while the latter draws upon John Cale’s meditative solo records). 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.

LP - Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

LP+ - Pink and Yellow Marble Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

Baby Grand

Music GB