Watch Black Marble’s “Woods” Video:
Black Marble has a new video for the track “Woods“, the lead single off the It’s Immaterial LP out now on Ghostly. Directed by Theo Sixou, the video was inspired by a trip to a World War II concentration camp. Sixou explains,
“A forest of birches surrounded the camp until the eye could see, and I caught myself thinking about the refugee crisis, about an escape. But where to escape to? Where to go? Only the woods”.
Black Marble’s Chris Stewart told Stereogum this week that he was initially skeptical of Sixou’s concept, but having worked with him on “A Great Design“, he knew that he just needed to trust the director’s vision. Stewart goes on to explain:
“Somehow, as visual allegory to the spirit of the song, these people running from something, but sometimes it seems, just running because there’s nothing else to do, fits perfectly with the underlying theme of the music, the sort of tension that exists when you already know the ultimate outcome but can’t bring yourself to extricate yourself from something that has just been in place for so long. That liminal space between wanting and doing can seemingly last forever and I think this video perfectly represents Woods in that way”.
Black Marble Tour
Black Marble is currently on a short tour of the West coast. Here are the remaining dates…
10.20 Sacramento, CA @ The Red Museum *
10.21 Portland, OR @ The Secret Society Ballroom +
10.22 Vancouver, BC @ The Astoria *
10.23 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey *
10.25 Reno, NV @ Holland Project
* w/ Ritual Howls
+ w/ Ritual Howls, Soft Kill
