Black Marble announces new album Life in Small Spaces
Black Marble has announced a new album. On August 21, Chris Stewart, aka Black Marble, will release his first new album in five years, Life in Small Spaces, via Sacred Bones. Today he’s released a new single, “Jim Carol New Year.” Hear it below.
Stewart said in a statement, “I always knew a lot of people in music struggled to make ends meet, but it surprised me to learn that the people you thought would be doing well often weren’t. For me, seeing the business from the inside like that changed how I looked at things. When I looked up to see a new artist on a billboard, I started to wonder, will I one day have to pretend to be something I’m not, in order to succeed? The life of an artist goes on after your moment ends, you know? So who do you want to be in the end and how do you want to be seen by the people that know you? I made Life In Small Spaces while thinking about that, and for me, it serves as my own ideal for living an artistic life. I’m doing it as a vocation, not some last-ditch effort to escape to some other world. I made this record not only as a way of saying that, but as a way of saying it’s ok to feel that way. It’s ok for people to sacrifice some degree of creature comfort in order to live a life you believe in. And it doesn’t have to be an endless search for something just out of reach, it can be a permanent way of being and something that sustains you.”
Black Marble’s last album was 2021’s Fast Idol.
Black Marble Life in Small Spaces tracklist:
1. It Always Comes to Me
2. Jim Carol New Year
3. Anything
4. Get Back Up
5. Other Man’s Dream
6. Guess
7. Life Without
8. Missing History
9. Panopticon Calls
10. Picture When
11. Sonny Boy
Black Marble tour dates:
Aug 22 Constellation Room at the Observatory Santa Ana, CA *
Aug 23 1720 Los Angeles (LA), CA *
Aug 25 Rickshaw Stop San Francisco, CA *
Aug 26 Harlow’s Sacramento, CA *
Aug 28 The Crocodile Seattle WA *
Aug 29 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR *
Aug 30 Shrine Social Club Boise, ID *
Aug 31 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City UT *
Sep 1 The Federal Theatre Denver CO #
Sep 3 Slowdown Omaha, NE #
Sep 4 Fine Line Minneapolis, MN #
Sep 5 Thalia Hall Chicago, IL #
Sep 6 El Club Detroit Detroit, MI #
Sep 7 Lee’s Palace Toronto, ON #
Sep 8 La Sala Rosa Montreal QC #
Sep 10 Webster Hall New York (NYC), NY #
Sep 11 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA #
Sep 12 Ottobar Baltimore, MD #
Sep 14 Kings Raleigh, NC #
Sep 15 The Earl Atlanta GA #
Sep 17 White Oak Music Hall – Upstairs Houston, TX #
Sep 18 Club Dada Dallas TX #
Sep 19 29th Street Ballroom Austin, TX #
