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
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’. You can pre-order the album here
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.”
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.”
‘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.
