Sacred Bones Records will release “Bigger Than Life” on October 25, 2019. It is the third studio album of the music project Black Marble, which was formed in 2012 in Brooklyn, New York, United States and is led by electronic musician Chris Stewart.
When Stewart set out to write and record his third album as Black Marble, he was newly living in Los Angeles, California, USA fresh off a move from New York. The environment brought much excitement and possibility but the distance had proved too much for the car he brought along.
With it out of commission indefinitely, Stewart purchased a bus pass and planned his daily commute from his Echo Park apartment to his downtown studio where he began to shape “Bigger Than Life.” The route wound all through the city from the small local shops of Echo Park to the rising glass of the business district to the desperation of Skid Row and the hurried energy of the environment provided a backdrop for the daily trip.
When Stewart finally arrived at his studio, he would look through his window at the mountains and the sky. She saw the beauty that makes Los Angeles unique, the same beauty his fellow commuters, some pushed to the edge of human endurance, had seen.
That was the headspace Stewart was in when he began to map out the syncopated drums and staccato arpeggiation of “Bigger Than Life,” an ode to his new condition and a shimmering synth-pop response to its cacophony. As with every Black Marble album, he recorded, produced and played everything you hear on “Bigger Than Life” using entirely analog gear, though the process was new.
This time around, Stewart wrote everything on his MPC and sequenced it live to his synths only using the computer to record not to create. Meanwhile, watch the official music video of “Feels” by Black Marble here:
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