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- Summary: More than 20 musicians contributed to the third release from North Carolina-based Stuart McLamb's music project, The Love Language.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock
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Aug 1, 2013On first listen, Ruby Red is explosive, raucous, and exciting. Repeated listening reveals different textures, more nuanced emotions, softer tones.
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Jul 30, 2013McLamb seems to be relishing the chance to get outside of his head, making music that is gorgeous and unashamedly fun.
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UncutJul 23, 2013Immersive and claustrophobic, Ruby Red seems designed for solitary listening under headphones. [Aug 2013, p.72]
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Jul 23, 2013Like a complex machine, the record has an impressive number of moving parts, but it lacks soul.
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Jul 23, 2013Ruby Red is free to sprawl and amble, joyous in its own sense of creative possibility.
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Q MagazineAug 20, 2013McLamb's vocals still sometimes fall the wrong side of the impassioned/histrionic divide, but this is a far more coherent album than its predecessor. [Sep 2013, p.104]
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Jul 25, 2013For a man standing behind the curtain, McLamb is strangely an impotent ruler and wizard, at least here on Ruby Red.
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