Marble Sounds

Sixth album with a turnaround

Marble Sounds has occupied a unique position in the Belgian music landscape for years. For the new and sixth album, to be released in early 2025, Van Dessel is changing course.

"I felt that with the last record I had reached a point that would be hard to go beyond. So instead of trying to top that album, I made a different record. Less melancholy, more pointed pop songs and choruses. The last album was for the heart, this one for the belly. Here and there are hints of my musical memories, especially from the 80s.

Sounds like

Piano and strings give way to a fuller, almost electronic and pure pop sound with synths where the spirit of Giorgio Moroder haunts.

The first single is "An Emotional High", a sparkling and epic indie pop that makes you long for summer and good times.

Support: Robin Kester

Rotterdam-based Robin Kester’s music thrives in moments of quiet unease. After the  stirring blend of chamber pop and psychedelia on her acclaimed debut album "Honeycomb Shades" (2023), she returns with her second one "Departure". It is a soundtrack to all the thoughts that bubble to the surface once the silence sinks in.

With the help of producer Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Perfume Genius), Kester balances scenes of idyllic bliss with existential questions. Written in the nights of recording sessions in Bristol, the result of Kester writing from a place of newfound clarity: “I could see myself for who I am.”

Stereogum - “Magnificent” 
Paste - “Superb… The Dutch musician is now an elite class”
de Volkskrant - "It seems like Robin Kester's songs are getting better and more beautiful"

wo 23 apr '25

Tiny Tunes: Marble Sounds

Songs like a warm breeze + Ha'ppy Meal

17:30 Sold out

© Johannes Vande Voorde