Black Market Karma are today releasing new single and video ‘Puddle Eyed Sponger’, the second to be lifted from their incoming ‘Wobble’ LP out July 26th on Fuzz Club. Pooling influences from 60s pop and psychedelia, crunchy break-beats and lo-fi electronica, ‘Wobble’ is a twelve-track collection of “cassette-ified” lo-fi psych-pop now trailed by ‘Puddle Eyed Sponger’ and recent lead single ‘Oozer’.
On the new single, band-leader and multi-instrumentalist Stanley Belton says: “Puddle Eyed Sponger is about a longing feeling for the intangible. It’s like a nostalgia for something that might not even exist. A familiar kind of yearning for a place and time that you haven’t experienced, or maybe you have and you’ve just got amnesia of the soul. I’ve seen it referred to as ‘fernweh’. This track is both an attempt to crystallise that in song and also about the pursuit itself of attempting to crystallise that in song. Aiming to give form to the formless through creation. Adding permanence to the temporary.”
‘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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