Lunch with Marble Arch today – recorded at the 2019 Route du Rock Winter Festival in Saint-Malo on February 22, 2019.
Marble Arch started in 2013 as a solo project by Yann Le Razavet, who was also a guitarist for the French shoegather band Maria Faise. Living in a small town in France, he didn’t have much to do besides making music and decided he needed an outlet for all the songs he was writing and recording. The first Marble Arch release was the very lo-fi echidna ep which came out in November of 2013. It caught the ear of the Requiem for a Twister label and they released his first full-length, The Bloom of Division, in 2014 with the help of fellow French label Le Turc Mecanique. Le Razavet recorded the album in his bedroom, while his Maria False bandmate Bernard Marie did the mixing. Le Ravazet assembled a live band and played a number of shows supporting the album, then began work on the follow up. After demo’ing a batch of songs for various labels, his manager Nicolas Jublot decided to start a label (with Rémi Laffitte’s help) to release future Marble Arch recordings. Instead of the original plan of releasing the demos as an album, Le Razavet decided to re-record some of the songs and opened up the recording process a little to allow for drums on one track from live bandmember Danny Kendrick, a guitar solo on another by Thomas Tan. One song leaked out in 2016, “The Sand,” but it took until early 2019 for the album, Children of the Slump, to appear on Geographie.
Your turn – Press play and relax. It’s Friday Junior anyway.
