{"id":34550,"date":"2020-07-05T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34550"},"modified":"2020-07-04T22:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T02:52:43","slug":"black-marble-announce-ep-of-covers-i-must-be-living-twice-shares-video-for-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34550","title":{"rendered":"Black Marble announce EP of covers ‘I Must Be Living Twice’ + shares video for \u2018In Manchester\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Black Marble\u00a0aka Chris Stewart has announced plans to release an EP of cover songs titled\u00a0\u2018I Must Be Living Twice,\u2019 due out\u00a0August 14, 2020\u00a0via\u00a0Sacred Bones Records.\u00a0\u2018I Must Be Living Twice\u2019\u00a0was recorded shortly after 2019\u2019s acclaimed full-length album\u00a0\u2018Bigger Than Life<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the announcement comes the release of Black Marble\u2019s version of In Manchester<\/em>, a song originally by Wire, accompanied by a video directed by Scott Kiernan. As Stewart puts it:\u00a0“I was initially drawn to the idea of covering In Manchester because of the lyrics, which, for me, paint compartmentalized impressionistic snapshots of time and place. Some are more clear and feel like specific street scenes. Some are more oblique, but still feel grounded by the \u2018In Manchester\u2019 chorus. Manchester is a stone city more akin to the feel of a Northeast American city. As someone who’s been recently living on the West Coast, I miss the storytelling backdrop of these more old world feeling places. I felt connected to the song through that, and started by introducing a bit more of an off kilter feel with the underlying synth pad at the outset. Perhaps on this day things are even a bit more uncertain than in the original. From there I figured if I just stayed true to the general outline, some impressions of my own songwriting would\u00a0creep in and I just hoped and trusted that the results would be complementary.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The non-narrative video for In Manchester<\/em> conceived by director Scott Kiernan\u00a0merges images of Chris Stewart rendered in a nearly holographic way, at times like a passing electrical current, with a similar text treatment for the lyrics themselves in which certain phrases appear as occasional bouts of word play, resulting in a feeling akin to an observation of life in passing, as if from a speeding car, witnessing events not understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Manchester<\/em>Watch the video for Black Marble\u2019s version of In Manchester directed by Scott Kiernan via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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