The Love Language

With sole constant Stuart McLamb living in Los Angeles since 2017, Triangle shows from The Love Language have become a rarity, despite the project’s local roots and ties to Merge Records. Featuring longtime local associates Tom Simpson, Autumn Ehinger, and Eddie Sanchez, the crew will converge at Kings and bound between the band’s four albums of kaleidoscopic pop-rock imbued with yearning melodies; its lush, layered arrangements strewn with quirky orchestral and electro bits. The band will also flesh out some demos for the next record, which McLamb describes as “a return to more traditional songcraft” and his mellowest yet, influenced by the likes of Big Thief, Neil Young, and Arthur Russell. Raleigh sextet Black Surfer brings eighties post-punk washed in reverb and rife with shoegaze guitars and urgent rhythms. McLamb also plays a solo Sunday matinee at Wake Forest Listening Room with Reese McHenry opening; expect some more new material and perhaps a few covers. —Spencer Griffith