{"id":31839,"date":"2019-07-28T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=31839"},"modified":"2019-07-26T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T19:40:02","slug":"black-marble-announces-new-album-bigger-than-life-shares-1st-single-one-eye-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=31839","title":{"rendered":"Black Marble announces new album ‘Bigger Than Life’ + shares 1st single ‘One Eye Open’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Black Marble aka Chris Stewart has announced the forthcoming full-length release, ‘Bigger Than Life,’ which is due out October 25th via his new label home, Sacred Bones Records. Along with the announcement, he also shares the video for the beautifully synthy One Eye Open<\/em>. The track is the first single from the now LA-based synth outfit’s third album. The song “is about the idea of an artist as sort of sacrificial lamb,”<\/em> says Stewart, adding: “We seem to like when our public figures take a fall, which sort of makes sense considering societies long-standing desire to publicly flay the fortunate as catharsis, but I’ve always found it ironic that artists\/musicians seem to fall into this category as well considering the disparity in income between say, a famous actor and a middling indie musician.  Either way, ‘One Eye Open’ is loosely based on the visual metaphor of a high wire artist in a <\/em>three ring<\/em><\/g> circus who elicits <\/em>ooh<\/em><\/g>s and aahs from the crowd, but after <\/em>a while<\/em> starts to perform with one eye open as they grow restless.”   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With regard to the One Eye Open<\/em> video, Stewart goes on to say: “I’ve been living in LA for two and a half years now, and I wanted to make a video that used the city as a character as a way to sort of show what I’ve been seeing.  I love cities so I always gravitate towards taking press photos on the street and things like that because I always want to ground myself in the city that I live in. Halle, who was on the cover of the last Black Marble record, lives out here.  We thought since this was going to be the first song off the new record that it would be cool to re-introduce her using a Lime scooter to move her through the city.  I love those scooters also.  People make fun of them but I think they are awesome and wanted to celebrate that through a character that seems a bit isolated but finds a kind of freedom on them and doesn’t really care what other people think.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the Chris Stewart and Ben Pier directed video for One Eye Open<\/em> via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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