Chris Stewart Black Marble Age

Kcpr spoke over the phone with black marble s frontman chris stewart.

Chris stewart black marble age.

Black marble s highly anticipated album it s immaterial was released on october 14 of last year. He planned a move to los angeles but wanted to finish black marble s second album before he left. Their dark milky post punk sound has received considerable air time on kcpr. In manchester originally recorded by wire.

Naturally we were excited to speak with stewart about his process. Black marble the artistic extension of chris stewart released their eagerly anticipated second full length its immaterial on ghostly back in september. Black marble began in 2012 with the release of an ep on hardly art titled weight against the door. Your support will help to keep off the tracks online.

Stewart grew up in a washington dc suburb finding early influences in the punk and hardcore scenes in the city. Since 2012 chris stewart has made airy pastiches of 1980s synthwave under the name black marble plinking puffs of nostalgia. Yeah over time i just started acquiring this stuff and all of a sudden it stopped sounding like something somebody made in garageband and. From the sacred bones stable.

Released august 14 2020 johnny and mary originally recorded by robert palmer. Br should i even be hanging out at the same bar as these kids. Steward had just played a show in. Yeah they were encouraging in that way nobody said dude you need to stop doing this this is maybe 10 and the whole thing sort of percolated before hardly art came along.

These personal and physical changes were echoed on it s immaterial a lighter and clearer sounding set of. Chris stewart black marble april 2020. Over time all the songs i d written morphed into recordings that used real synthesizers. I spent a lot of time on that record and there are lots of different versions that exist.

Poison tree originally recorded by grouper. Chris stewart black marble age. During this time kube departed and stewart was hospitalized with a serious case of pneumonia. Those two houses were intentionally made in order for one to sort of stoke the other one and i feel like new york is sort of the house of representatives for the country a.

Stewart brought in choice collaborators to work on the follow up to ep weight against the door and debut album a different arrangement with fans having to wait four years between the cold wave project s two albums. Emma s house originally recorded by the field mice. Golden age originally recorded by lives of angels. The place doesn t look the same anymore it s changed so do i really wanna stay in the same.

Black marble is the artistic extension of chris stewart a conduit for his musical ideas and expressions. By sep 29 2020 uncategorized 0 comments. Also in 2012 black marble released its first full length album on hardly art titled a different arrangement. You can support off the tracks via presspatron.

Yet interestingly on this subject of relocating stewart briefly touches on class politics in his old home and the us in general.