““Marble,” the opening track from Xeno & Oaklander's new fifth album Topiary, is a carefully chiseled piece of nocturnal dark pop. Which isn't anything new for the longstanding minimal-synth duo. What is new, though, is that they left their usual Brooklyn home-studio to record the collection at the Clubhouse, a painting and music studio built in Connecticut in 1991 by members of the Tom Tom Club. I”
