MERGE RECORDS

NY'S Essex Green has present and former members of Guppyboy and the Ladybug Transistor. This is their second full-length album THE LONG GOODBYE. Songs soar on billowy clouds of organ and flute or...

Debut follow-up albums have a dreaded reputation for falling short of their predecessors.áThe Essex Greenábucked the odds and delivered a masterwork release witháThe Long Goodbyeáin 2003. The band's...

It's not often that a group or artist releases a self-titled record 5 albums into their career. Eponymous albums are usually reserved for debuts, but for The Ladybug Transistor this new record is a...

2018 release. 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...

The Love Language's Baby Grand has it's 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;...

The Love Languageßis 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...

Among the moments captured on Libraries are Spectoresque walls of reckless sound, cavernous drums, middle-school percussion, and moody swells of stringed instruments, all decorated hastily with stray...

Ruby Redßproduces 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...

Ruby Redáproduces 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...

This reissue marks the 10th anniversary of The Love Language's long-out-of-print debut album! This one-time pressing on opaque yellow vinyl features updated art, full lyrics printed on a heavyweight...

1999 release, the first of three volumes of this ambitious project that includes a total of 69 love songs spread over three volumes (each disc contains 23 tracks). Magnetic Fields are an...

The result of Stephin Meritt's prolific songwriting. 69 love songs offered as threee volumes or a Limited Edition 3-CD Box Set. After making records for his other bands the past few years (The 6th,...