____________Interview by Zoe Zag: What is Black Marble?
I started it as sort of like a bedroom project, I didn't really have a plan for it. And then I kept making songs and gave them to my friends and they said that they like them, even though they were bad. So I kept doing it, and recruited Ty and we've been playing shows for almost two years now.
We use all analog, we think it sounds better that way. Are influences are less like the 'weird' stuff that typically use old electronics, like most of those bands don't have bass in it- they don't have people playing live instruments. What we were going for with our band was like a bit of that but trying to go with the old synth punk bands from the 80's like The Screamers and stuff like that from the west coast. That's why we're a little different from bands in New York, like 'weird' bands. We like a lot of old synth punk like Sexual Harassment and disco-y synth punk bands from the early 80's. We are going for that more than the classic French cold wave, but we like all that stuff too. Whats your tour looking like? We just played in San Diego. We started in San Diego, tonight we are playing here and then we are going up the coast. We are playing with Light House I think in Portland. We are playing shows with Soft Metals. Tell me about Lo-Fi music? A lot of the newer synth bands now don't really use analog at all because they don't want to lug around those old things. There's a big contingency of people that don't really care about that aspect of the music, that it's made with old dilapidated equipment, they just want to go to guitar center and get the newest keyboard