Today Black Marble aka Chris Stewart has announced his new album titled Fast Idol, which is due out October 22 via Sacred Bones Records. He’s also sharing the first single and video from the video online, “Somewhere“, online now and has announced a full UK tour for this October and November.
On the track itself, Chris Stewart shares: “‘Somewhere’ describes a place just out of reach that serves as a diversion and takes focus away from the ambiguities of daily life. It represents a place of disinhibition where if it could only be remembered, or found, the people we aim to be could for a moment be fully realized. Although its dreamlike clarity and feeling of connection may seem like an empty promise, it serves as an aspirational reminder for what might be.”
The song is accompanied by a wondrous video directed by Theo Sixou. Regarding the visuals, Chris Stewart says: “I was so happy to work with director Theo Six for our third video together. Brought to life in the shadows of the towers of the Parisian suburbs, I love that Theo always seems to return to the themes of searching and wishing in his work. I think that the idea of an artist, or anyone really, as a fully formed entity interacting with the world is rather strange. Although there can be pressure to come across this way, I think it’s more interesting and realistic to admit to the idea that most of us struggle to live up to some idealized projection of who we want to be. In this way, I’ve always appreciated how Theo imbues these little worlds he creates with feelings of desire for this sort of transcendence, and I always trust that I’ll relate to the way he sees things.”
