“Black Marble’s Fast Idol sees clearly into the future but cherishes the comfort of the past”
“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 ”
“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.”
