Raleigh’s The Love Language are on everyone’s mouth these days including NPR, New Raleigh (back in June of 2008, wooooahh!) and Pitchfork where they recently received a lo-fi, yet high scoring review of their debut album. They have also released their first video (below, via Myspace, and also at Spin) of the first single, Sparxxx. The video is, once again, a rollback to the Lo-Fi days of 8mm and all things . If nothing else, The Love Language are carving out a genre niche for themselves, Lo-Fi retro pop or something else with the words Lo-Fi that sounds catchy.
The band will also play Raleigh once again on May 9th at The Pour House with Whatever Brains, another hot local band that pushes the Lo-Fi buttons, but on the noise end of the speakers.
The Love Language
w/ Whatever Brains
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Ticket Price: $7
Doors: 8 pm
Show: 10 pm
Which is exactly what the six-piece do in this video for their new track “Sparxxx.” As hipsters chug from liquor bottles concealed in paper bags and chow down on cake, the band—performing in the middle of the dance floor—get feet movin’ with their melodic electric guitars and charmingly ramshackle beats. Frontman Stuart McLamb might howl emotional lines like, “Left my heart in ruins / All my thoughts just ran apart like a pack of restless children,” but there’s lots of love in the air among the partiers in the clip.
Above review and top photo from Spin Magazine
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