Black Market Karma are today announcing their eleventh studio album ‘Wobble’ and sharing the lead single ‘Oozer’ alongside an accompanying video. Pooling influences from 60s pop and psychedelia, crunchy hip-hop break-beats and lo-fi electronica, ‘Wobble’ is a twelve-track collection of “cassette-ified” lo-fi psych-pop due out July 26th on their new label home Fuzz Cub.
On lead single ‘Oozer’, band-leader and multi-instrumentalist Stanley Belton says: “Oozer is about being malleable and adaptive to life as it’s coming at you. Holding close what you believe to be true while also being open to new information and techniques. Liquid moving around an obstacle instead of going through. It’s also about recycling negative mental states through the pursuit of things you enjoy, and repurposing them as a kind of positive fuel.”
Hailing from London and now residing on the South Coast, BMK’s prolific output is fuelled by Belton, who writes, performs, records, produces and up until now self-released everything from his own live-in ‘Cocoon’ studio. The album’s title is a reference to tape wobble / wow and flutter, subtle fluctuations in pitch characteristic of analogue recording equipment. Where once seen as a limitation by older generations, for others they evoke a welcome sense of nostalgia and that’s what Belton sought to excavate here:
“Sonically, I wanted the album to feel like a collection of discarded and worse for wear instruments came to life, refurbished themselves and started to play. The sound is an attempt to give form to the often formless feeling that is nostalgia. With songs attempting to crystallise a feeling known as ‘fernweh’. A kind of longing for a place and time you’ve never experienced, be it in this world or another.”
‘Wobble’ arrives off the back of 2022’s ‘Aped Flair and Hijacked Ideas’ album and the 2023 collaborative album ‘Friends In Noise’, which saw Belton team up with Tess Parks, The Underground Youth, Les Big Byrd’s Joakim Ahlund and The Confederate Dead. In 2023 Black Market Karma also released ‘The Sour Truth’, a collaborative single with Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3 co-founder Pete Kember), and toured heavily around Europe. In January of that year, they went out on a European run with The Black Angels, invited by the Texan psych-rock heavyweights themselves, followed by a November headline tour of their own.
‘MOST PERFECT SOLITUDE’ TOUR DATES
May 2 – Leiden, NL @ Gebr. Denobel
May 3 – Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival
May 4 – Antwerp, BE @ Djingel Djangel
May 5 – Chambery, FR @ Brin De Zinc
May 6 – Bern,CH @ Cafe Kairo
May 7 – Saint Martin, FR @ Cafe Concert Freppel
May 8 – Sion, CH @ Point 11
May 9 – Basel, CH @ Bar Renee
May 10 – Vieux Ferrette, FR @ Brasserie Radwulf
May 11 – Schaffhausen, CH @ Radio Rasa
May 12 – Mannheim, DE @ Altes Volksbad
May 13 – Kusel, DE @ Kinett
May 14 – Dortmund, DE @ Sub Rosa
June 2 – Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain
Sep 5 – Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat
Sep 7 – Folkestone, UK @ The Chambers
Sep 12 – London, UK @ The Water Rats
Sep 13 – Northampton, UK @ The Black Prince
Sep 14 – Hastings, UK @ The Piper
Sep 16 – Rouen, FR @ Le # Pièces Musik
Sep 19 – Oslo, NO @ Revolver
Sep 20 – Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik
21/09 – Copenhagen, DK @ Rahuset
More to be announced
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