I spoke to McCathie and McMullan earlier this year for a video interview, but Marten is such a complete, encompassing listening experience that a dive into the songs themselves felt warranted. As noted above, McCathie was kind enough to get on board with the idea. The results follow.
Effervescent and gregarious in person, Susie was kind enough to answer some questions for me in this exclusive interview ahead of the release of their third full length album, Rabbits.
Not for the faint-hearted, this is a powerfully intoxicating album and with each listen grows increasingly harrowingly emotional as you fall deeper into its spell. Beautiful, simply darkly beautiful indeed
Albums like Marten happen neither every year nor for every band…(Brume)they’re more assured than ever of who they are as a band working in new sonic dimensions of length, width, height and depth, and ‘The Yearn” indeed makes you believe the heart behind it all is for real. That’s an achievement in itself, but still only a fraction of what puts Marten so much on its own level, both for Brume and in whichever microgenre tag might ultimately fail to encapsulate their work here.
Atom Smasher asked them to answer some questions. It’s the first time we’ve received poetry answers from anyone.