Name: Bigger Than Life (SB 15 Year Edition)
Brand: Black Marble

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SBR234lp-C5

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Colour

Blue

Colour details

Royal Blue Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843563149379

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Black Marble

Genre US

Synthwave

Label US

Sacred Bones Records

Black Marble is a coldwave/synthpop/post-punk music project from the USA. Formed in March 2011 in Brooklyn, New York, Black Marble started as a duo consisting of Chris Stewart and Ty Kube. However, in early 2016, Chris Stewart decided to relocate to Los Angeles while Ty Kube remained in Brooklyn. Since then, Black Marble has become a solo project for Chris Stewart, with occasional session live musicians joining him on stage.

The current lineup of Black Marble includes Chris Stewart as the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. He has been part of the project since its inception in 2011.

Prior to becoming a solo act, Ty Kube contributed to Black Marble as the synthesizer and keyboard player from 2011 until 2016.

When Chris Stewart set out to write and record his third album as Black Marble, he was newly living in Los Angeles, 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, he 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. The hurried energy of the environment provided a backdrop for the daily trip. When Stewart finally arrived at his studio, he’d look through his window at the mountains and the sky, seeing the beauty that makes L.A. unique — the same beauty his fellow commuters, some pushed to the edge of human endurance, had seen. That was the headspace he 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, Stewart recorded, produced, and played everything you hear on Bigger Than Life using entirely analog gear, though the process was new. This time around, he wrote everything on his MPC and sequenced it live to his synths — only using the computer to record, not to create. “I try new approaches every time, which helps me stay engaged but also its kind of a trick I play on the creative side of my brain,” Stewart says. “Keeping one side of my mind busy on organizational creativity I think frees up the other side where the inspirational creativity comes from.”

Bigger Than Life (SB 15 Year Edition)

Music US