Black Marble’s debut EP Weight Against the Door made the Brooklyn duo a fixture in darkwave circles. Less than ten months later, bedroom producers Chris Stewart and Ty Kube return with A Different Arrangement – a full-length that trades coldwave formalism for something warmer and more expansive.The record ranges widely: Peter Hook-inspired basslines weave through radiant synth ebullience (“A Great Design”), haunted playground-bop (“Limitations”), and otherworldly sound sculpture (“Last”). The influence of synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental is felt throughout, as is the duo’s hard-line DIY ethos. “A certain handmade feeling is what we’re after,” says Stewart. “It’s important to carry someresidue of the process… It’s humanizing.” A Different Arrangement is a striking evolution – the moment the radiator sputters to life after a long, cold night.

Tracklist:

1. Cruel Summer
2. MSQ No-Extra
3. A Great Design
4. A Different Arrangement
5. Limitations
6. U.K
7. Static
8. Pretender
9. Last
10. Safe Minds
11. Unrelated

UPC: 098787306354
Label: Hardly Art
Release Date: 7.10.26
Format: Vinyl