photo by Andrew Shepherd
There might not be a better time for Seattle based Marble. Let the massive sound of "quiet mind" wash over you with the vibrating synth rattle, psychedelic guitars and Chantel Bailey's vocal intensity and it will either break you or provide a sense of catharsis for what ever emotional weight is ailing you. I probably would do a horrible job in describing the sound that is crafted by songwriter / guitarist Bailey and her musical partner Matthew Blount (who can make his guitar wail, cry and sound otherwordly) but suffice it to say, this isn't for the weak of heart. The song about "loving yourself in your worst moments", expertly mixed by Brandon Eggleston (Wye Oak, Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats) and mastered by Ed Brooks (REM, Pearl Jam, Minus the Bear) with it's darkly drawn crescendos and pummeling aesthetic feels like it could grace a horror story bathed in blood but one where the survivor wins in the end.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/marbleinseattle/
https://www.instagram.com/marble_band/
https://www.marble.band/
https://soundcloud.com/marbleinseattle
Slow-falling through a decade of futile relationships, unstable living conditions, and hollow acts of self preservation, songwriter and guitarist, Chantel Bailey stumbled out of the shadows and into her own with nothing but a handful of honest, autobiographical songs and openness to the great unknown. In 2016, she met Matthew Blount, a closeted guitarist for over a decade, and the missing thread. Within the paper thin bleached walls of a northwest apartment dusted by the cold salt spray of the Pacific Ocean, the band MARBLE was born.
Since their founding in late 2016, MARBLE has transformed. In the pursuit of radical honesty, songs were written, performed, recorded, and tossed; appreciated as a stepping stone, then outgrown. Years of emotional deep dives, spiritual deconstruction and reconstruction, and bold illuminations of the shadows past and within has enabled MARBLE to draw from a deepening well of expression. MARBLE is, in one word, a mood. You don’t need to know the lyrics to know how you feel; enraptured in the pain, beauty, and fragility of Bailey’s voice, unfolding under layers of melancholy melodies, captivated in the story as Blount’s iconic ambient guitar lines live fiercely in the noise and die delicately in the quiet.
With persistent descent into introspection and band collaboration with a rotating cast of drummers and bassists, MARBLE’s songwriting has matured. Their premier single release, and the first in a series of scheduled releases in 2020,“i become a ghost”, is a call to sit with yourself in the darkness, allow it to engulf you, and honour your humanity in the very feeling and passing of it. Examining themes of mental health and spiritual dissonance, ‘i become a ghost’ will leave you in a trance, floating atop cathartic gloom poetry and weighted by visceral, mood-driven chord progressions and distinctive voicings.
We get by with a little help from our friends
MARBLE, Slowcore, Post Rock, Alternative Rock, songwriter, guitarist, Chantel Bailey, vocal intensity, Matthew Blount, guitarist, musical duo, heavy, massive sound, alternative rock, indie rock, psychedelic rock, "quiet mind",
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/marbleinseattle/
https://www.instagram.com/marble_band/
https://www.marble.band/
https://soundcloud.com/marbleinseattle
Slow-falling through a decade of futile relationships, unstable living conditions, and hollow acts of self preservation, songwriter and guitarist, Chantel Bailey stumbled out of the shadows and into her own with nothing but a handful of honest, autobiographical songs and openness to the great unknown. In 2016, she met Matthew Blount, a closeted guitarist for over a decade, and the missing thread. Within the paper thin bleached walls of a northwest apartment dusted by the cold salt spray of the Pacific Ocean, the band MARBLE was born.
Since their founding in late 2016, MARBLE has transformed. In the pursuit of radical honesty, songs were written, performed, recorded, and tossed; appreciated as a stepping stone, then outgrown. Years of emotional deep dives, spiritual deconstruction and reconstruction, and bold illuminations of the shadows past and within has enabled MARBLE to draw from a deepening well of expression. MARBLE is, in one word, a mood. You don’t need to know the lyrics to know how you feel; enraptured in the pain, beauty, and fragility of Bailey’s voice, unfolding under layers of melancholy melodies, captivated in the story as Blount’s iconic ambient guitar lines live fiercely in the noise and die delicately in the quiet.
With persistent descent into introspection and band collaboration with a rotating cast of drummers and bassists, MARBLE’s songwriting has matured. Their premier single release, and the first in a series of scheduled releases in 2020,“i become a ghost”, is a call to sit with yourself in the darkness, allow it to engulf you, and honour your humanity in the very feeling and passing of it. Examining themes of mental health and spiritual dissonance, ‘i become a ghost’ will leave you in a trance, floating atop cathartic gloom poetry and weighted by visceral, mood-driven chord progressions and distinctive voicings.
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We get by with a little help from our friends
MARBLE, Slowcore, Post Rock, Alternative Rock, songwriter, guitarist, Chantel Bailey, vocal intensity, Matthew Blount, guitarist, musical duo, heavy, massive sound, alternative rock, indie rock, psychedelic rock, "quiet mind",
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