The Love Language soundcheck Lalita in Brooklyn’s Bell House
The Love Language rollick through their monstrously catchy single Lalita at The
Bell House in Brooklyn. The band has been getting a great deal of warranted
attention of late and their show in New York rounded out a month-long post-
SxSW tour with Headlights.
I’m pretty new to The Love Language. A friend blipped Lalita the day before this
video was shot during which time I’d probably listened to the track a few dozen
times. Great pop songs have that effect and this tune is one of the best I’ve heard
in years. When I saw the band were playing in my backyard the latent OCD kicked
in and I blagged the opportunity to shoot them run through one song at the end of
their soundcheck. Their singer, Stu McLamb (who incidentally recorded the entire
album himself in his folk’s living room and is as lovely as he sounds on record)
offered up Lalita as his song of choice for the session.
What you see here though is the band’s second run through of the song. The first
take miraculously came through the mixing desk as fuzzed out digital noise and by
the time we listened back to it the band had all but taken all their instruments
offstage. So props to The Love Language for having the humor to get back up there
and bang out an even better performance than their first run through.
The song is lifted from the band’s magnificent self-titled debut album on Bladen
County Records. Thanks to Geoff Sawyer and Matthew Brown at Bladen County
Records and The Bell Houses’ Jeff Stultz, William Crane and Abigail Deirdre Gullo
for their help in making this happen.
Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Jeff Stultz and mixed by Ben Allen.
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