Built in a Berlin basement, finished on the road

Marlow Vance writes the kind of records that sound like 3am in a city that never fully sleeps — warm analogue synths, guitars run through too much tape delay, and a voice that stays low enough to make you lean in.

Second album Static Bloom was tracked across eleven months between a converted Kreuzberg basement and whatever room the tour happened to land in. Where the debut leaned cold and precise, this one keeps the mistakes in — room noise, a chair scraping, a take that runs four bars too long.

The result is the widest-sounding thing he has made, and the closest to how the songs actually land live.