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For harder electronic rhythms, visit \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/greycatrecords.com\/collections\/industrial-ebm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eIndustrial \u0026amp; EBM\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"black-marble-bigger-than-life-15-year-edition","title":"Black Marble - Bigger Than Life","description":"\u003ch6\u003eA special Royal Blue vinyl edition celebrating Sacred Bones 15th year annivesary.\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 \u003cem\u003eBigger Than Life\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 \u003cem\u003eBigger Than Life\u003c\/em\u003e, an ode to his new condition and a shimmering synth-pop response to its cacophony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The album comes out of seeing and experiencing a lot of turmoil but wanting to create something positive out of it,” Stewart explains. “I wanted to take a less selfish approach on this record. 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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 shared humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmerging 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. 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