Black MarbleBest Black Marble Albums Ranked
7.2
Avg Score
8
Opinions
5
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Black Marble's catalog across 5 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 7.2/10. The top-rated Black Marble album is Fast Idol (2021) with a 7.3/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Bigger Than Life and I Must Be Living Twice - EP. The discography on Wavelength spans 2019 to 2021.
Fast Idol
“Black Marble’s Fast Idol sees clearly into the future but cherishes the comfort of the past”
Bigger Than Life
“On Bigger Than Life, Black Marble moves forward into yet more possibilities”
Fast Idol
“It’d be easy to reduce the music that New Yorker Chris Stewart makes as Black Marble to the simplicity of its formula: yearning, washed-out vocals, ticking drum machines, tinny synths and ever-so-tasteful guitar arpeggios. And while it’s true that there really isn’t much more to it than that in material terms, it feels like a plain list of this music’s basic elements sort of misses the point. On ”
Bigger Than Life
“Chris Stewart’s morning commute sounds like a roller-coaster of societal sightseeing. Having migrated from New York with his long-term project Black Marble to his new LA studio hideout, his daily bus route winds through the high-rise bustle of the city’s business district and then down the dilapidated streets of Skid Row. It’s the relationship between these two contrasts that’s inspired his third ”
I Must Be Living Twice - EP
“The synth-pop soloist recaptures the moody appeal of his earliest releases on this low-stakes collection of covers.”
Fast Idol
“Chris Stewart continues his decade-long quest to rewrite ’80s synth-pop on his latest record, an enjoyable homage that struggles to reach the heights of its influences.”
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