Name: Fast Idol
Brand: Black Marble

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SBR278LPC1

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Colour

Gold

Colour details

Golden Nugget

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Discogs ID

[r20690800]

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0843563139806

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Total Cap

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

SBR278CD

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Extended format: No

0843563139851

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

SBR278LP

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Black

0843563139783

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

SBR278LPC2

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Red and White and Black Splat

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Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

LP++

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843563139806

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

Artist

Black Marble

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

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.

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

Sacred Bones Records is a New York label founded in 2007. With an impressive team including Taylor Brode as the general manager, [designer], [screen-printing artist], and [video maker], they have established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the music industry.

Their catalogue number scheme includes various formats such as LPs, mail-order exclusives, mystery 12", flexi-discs, tapes, mixtapes, CDs, reissues, remixes, and releases specifically for the Japanese market. Each format is easily identifiable by its unique catalogue number.

With their informative and authoritative tone of voice, Sacred Bones Records has become a go-to label for music enthusiasts looking for diverse and high-quality releases across different formats. Explore their extensive catalogue and discover new sounds that will captivate your ears.

On Fast Idol, LA-based Black Marble reaches back through time to connect with the forgotten bedroom kids of the analogue era, the halcyon days of icy hooks and warbly synths. Harmonies are piped in across the expanse of space, and lyrics capture conversations that seem to come from another room, repeat an accusation overheard, or speak as if in sleep of interpersonal struggles distilled down to one subconscious phrase. At the same time, percussive elements feel forward and cut through the mix with toms counting off the measures like a lost tribe broadcasting through the bass and tops of a basement club soundsystem.

Melodies roll with the fizz and charm of Jacno and phrases repeated are electric torchlight ballads sung after hours in William Gibson’s San Francisco. ‘Somewhere’ opens in sombre herald, before dropping into a fast freeway tempo; the glassy synths and crisp beats cut through the anxious moods on ‘Bodies’ and ‘Try’ sits in a lineage with cult bands like Asylum Party. ‘The Garden’ is a journey through a post-apocalyptic cityscape, earthed by the pulse of a drum machine whereas ‘Ship To Shore’ could be a lost Oppenheimer Analysis B-side, and the album’s closer ‘Brighter and Bigger’ catches a sentiment like The Dadacomputer has learned to feel emotions. He captures the loneliness of Ray Bradbury’s atomic-era sci-fi and the apocalyptic but revolutionary spirit of Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil, as in ‘Preoccupation’, the beating heart of the album, which conjures ambivalent scenes of an empty world and the comfort to be found in a

Emerging from the early 2000s New York synth scene, Black Marble carried on the tradition of early synthwave pioneers like Martin Dupont and Modern Art who repurposed synths once reserved for expensive studios and stadium rock superstars. Seeking to channel this spirit, Black Marble recalls the gauzy tape wow and flutter of The Membranes and the warbling VCO of Futurisk, carrying on a sound that seeks to channel the future while imprinting residue of the past.

Fast Idol

Music GB

Discover Fast Idol by Black Marble on vinyl and CD. This Rough Trade exclusive, limited edition release from Sacred Bones Records captures the essence of the analogue era with icy hooks and warbly synths.