DARK PARK presents:
BLACK MARBLE (US)
The synth-pop grammar that dictates Black Marble’s music is strict and specific. The project formed as a duo in 2012 but eventually pared down to lone member Chris Stewart; throughout, its output has been uniformly composed of the same carefully curated elements. The instruments are hulking hardware synths and drum machines that hum when they power up. Fluid, melodic bass lines immediately recall New Order.
Black Marble has just released his new album ’Private Show’ through Sacred Bones and the crumbling production values are inspired by obscure ’80s minimal-wave artists like Iron Curtain; a detached romanticism can be traced from choice moments in the early OMD catalog. Applying this rigid aesthetic to Stewart’s pop-minded songwriting makes Black Marble one of the more disarmingly catchy bands to bear the coldwave tag.
PANTHER MODERN is an exciting new audio/visual project by Brady Keehn (of recently defunct LA outfit SEXTILE). His self-released debut EP, aptly titled ‘LOS ANGELES 2020’, is out now.
This is a future-past, where Neuromancer aesthetic meets synthetic EBM pleasure… PANTHER MODERN handles every facet of Keehn’s latest techno-vision, and finds the ever-evolving Keehn combining the audio/visual components buried deep within his programming into one cohesive project.