The Love Language

The Love Language | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bladen County Records
• ASIN: B001PPLKB2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,408 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The Love Language sounds like the Arcade Fire drank several bottles of bourbon and recorded an album on a 4-track machine. This lo-fi pop brilliance is surely one of the great records of 2009. The band's eight-piece lineup delivers fierce shows featuring great arrangements and tons of youthful energy. The songs lean heavy on '50s pop forms à la Ricky Nelson, and Stu McLamb is one of the best vocalists of his generation. The first single, Lalita, is an undeniable charge, and the follow-up single, Sparxxx, is Southern goth jangle at its finest.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, November 16, 2009

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Colin T. Boyd-Bigby - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Love Language (Audio CD)

Bought their record at their show in New Haven, CT sometime in January or February I think. It's wound up probably being my most played record I've acquired this year. I just can't get over it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent first album, May 11, 2009

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BraveNewWorker (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Love Language (Audio CD)

The album is great, 9 songs that include no filler, just good tunes with great hooks. They sound like a mix between The Arcade Fire (perfect mélange of layered instruments, tinkling piano faintly in the background, vivacious choruses, the melancholia of analog recording and timid production...) and The Cold War Kids (dissonant vocals, heavy tambourine, all as if played and recorded in a large room).

They are not as vocal driven as The Cold War Kids, though, which is great. The lead singer is often accompanied by others in a ghostly chorus, the thick fat of the vocals resting atop a simmering stew of guitars, pianos, drums, tambourine, a humming bass, at times all mashed up together to the point it'd be almost impossible to pick out a single instrument to focus on any more than a moment.

So I enjoyed the album and I definitely recommend it. My only criticism of the album is its terrible production. The band was good enough to pull off a great album, however, even with the cringing distortion during some of the shouted vocals and barely being able to hear the drums or guitars some of the time over the tambourine. Maybe that was their intention, which I hope wasn't.

I can see this band having an awesome second album, with hopefully a better level of production. All the other pieces are already there.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic, October 23, 2009

By 

Fred Barnes "anonymous" (Bedford Falls) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Love Language (MP3 Download)

This is an amazing album with brilliant a brilliant and rich lo-fi sound. Looking forward to their future releases on Merge!