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May 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Photography by Marci Hohner The Love Language

The Love Language (aka Stuart McLamb) has announced a new album, Baby Grand, his first in five years, and shared two songs from it, “Castle in the Sky” and “Southern Doldrums.” Baby Grand is due out August 3 via Merge. Listen to both songs below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art.

Baby Grand is The Love Language’s fourth album, McLamb’s first since 2013’s Ruby Red. The album was begun in a Virginia hammock factory, but was finished after McLamb moved across country to California.

Of the album and “Castle in the Sky,” McLamb says in a press release: “It was something just about being in a new city, and a new light, and reopening the sessions, and this demo that I thought was a throwaway, suddenly I’m really feeling it….”

Read our 2013 My Firsts interview with The Love Language.

Baby Grand Tracklist:

1. Frames
2. New Amsterdam
3. Southern Doldrums
4. Juiceboxx
5. Shared Spaces
6. Paraty
7. Independence Day
8. Castle in the Sky
9. Rain/Delay
10. Let Your Hair Down
11. Glassy
12. Midlife (Demo)
13. Cellophane (Demo)

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