Marble Halls

Ojos En La Oscuridad

"I’m Not Dead" by KuF is a defiant anthem for anyone who's ever been told they're too old, too late, or past their prime. With thunderous drums, gritty riffs, and a no-apologies vocal delivery, the track pushes back hard against the idea that passion has an expiration date. It’s not just about music—it’s about proving that the fire still burns, the dream still matters, and you're far from done. KuF doesn’t just play loud—they live loud. I’m Not Dead is their rally cry: age doesn’t define you—your spirit does.

I'm Not Dead

Composer, Vocals & Keys: Sophie Penman
Drums - Ryan Thrupp
Bass - Duncan Penman
Mixing & Mastering: Jack Stanton / HCH Studios
Photography: Charlotte Hutchison

Albert Street

Quicksand Serenade pulls you into a world where shadows and light collide, where every step forward feels like sinking deeper. It’s a haunting reflection on struggle, temptation, and the fragile beauty we cling to when everything threatens to consume us. Both dark and bittersweet, it whispers of despair and hope in the same breath — leaving you to decide whether the quicksand is an ending, or the beginning of something deeper.

Quicksand Serenade

Your greeting card is on the way
Happy Groundhog Day
Like yesterday and the day before
I’ve got plans to walk the floor
’Cause in Purgatory
It's always the same story
The feeling that never goes away
Is like checking the mail on a holiday
Decide
Make up your mind
Decide
I want off this ride
There’s no answers to be found
Just sitting here waiting around
It’s not fair
It’s not right
Lying in bed wide awake all night
Wondering what to do
Wishing I could get you to
Decide
You said you needed space
Now some guy's parked at your place
If you needed time on your own
Shouldn't you be there all alone?
Decide
Make up your mind
Decide
I want off this ride
There’s no answers to be found
Just sitting here waiting around
It’s not right
It’s not fair
And worry won't get you anywhere
But my patience has run out
I’m really starting to doubt you’ll ever
Decide
Please pick up your phone
You're probably not even home
And I don't wanna know why
I just need you to
Decide

Decide

“Dead End” is a winter-bound piano ballad born directly out of autistic burnout — written in the exact moment the world became too loud, too fast, and too heavy to navigate.

Unlike my usual sharp, structured writing, this song spilled out in raw fragments: directions collapsing, sentences fraying, thoughts stalling mid-air. Only later did I realise the lyrics unconsciously refused every trace of traditional iambic rhythm — the natural meter of neurotypical English speech — mirroring the way my own internal compass had broken under exhaustion.

The track moves in cycles, returning to the same emotional bearings, each time dimmer and more frayed, capturing the loop of burnout where you try to find your way forward but keep arriving at the same dark crossroads.

It’s a song about losing direction, losing language, losing structure… and still having to move through the world anyway.

For anyone who’s ever hit their own “Dead End” — in neurodivergence, in life, or in winter — this one’s for you.

Lyrics:

(Circum-Sonus Surrounds…)

How can such mesmerising beauty, keep leading me to Hope’s End?
Winds of change carry such sweet serenity, that I follow for reasons I can’t comprehend. 
The fragrance of hope guides the breeze, amidst Rose petals is a trail of Starlight.
My Life’s Compass, it is a Core part of me, that I’m Constitutionally unable to fight…

Navigating this life with a broken Compass.
Every road leads me to another impasse.
Forever the fool, believing one day, my life’s path will lead to light, A way out…
The flame of time’s candle never waits, it’s close to burning out…
The roses I follow are but a glamour, they are withered and already at dead’s end.
The cycle continues, options are running out. 
It’s time I accept dead’s end…

Envy is a deadly sin, but how does it matter when I’m already dead…?
I can’t help my jealousy, bearing witness to life’s compass favouring everyone else instead.
It’s pointless to ponder, but it’s the human condition
That for me is harrowing…
Witnessing the rest navigate towards freedom while
My own walls are narrowing...

Navigating this life with a broken Compass.
Every road leads me to another impasse.
Forever the fool, believing one day, my life’s path will lead to light, A way out…
The flame of time’s candle never waits, it’s close to burning out…
The roses I follow are but a glamour, they are withered and already at dead’s end.
The cycle continues, options are running out. 
It’s time I accept dead’s end…

Against my will I was born, Bearing a compass core void of its points.
South, the single direction I can go, Life's destination leads only to disappoints... 
Even when I try to follow your ways, hoping you’ll lead me there.
Magnetic repulsion of me from you, I can’t ever get close or know the feeling of someone's care...

Navigating this life with a broken Compass.
Every road leads me to another impasse.
Forever the fool, believing one day, my life’s path will lead to light, A way out…
The flame of time’s candle never waits, it’s close to burning out…
The roses I follow are but a glamour, they are withered and already at dead’s end.
The cycle continues, options are running out. 
It’s time I accept dead’s end…

Will the winds blow again carrying rose’s that for a moment,
 I experience hope…

But in this moment, all I wish for is dead’s end because
 I can no longer cope…

Dead End

Toxic

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landslide (prod. domi)

Formula

Exploration indie pop from the undiscovered tundra of Stockholm Archipelago. 

Our debut album "Geography A" offers a theme about exploration and adventure. It tells the tale of two precocious kids that steal horses from their riding school, build a raft, and leave shore for undiscovered continents.

These indie pop songs are filled with sun-drenched escapism and offer a cascade of buzzing string machines, chiming guitars and eerie mellotron paired with pop duets. The album is carved out of our rock-solid love of pure pop melodies.

Parallel with Marble Raft, Gabrielle is the lead singer and songwriter in the shoegaze band IBEN and Olle has previously been a member and songwriter in the indie pop bands Nanook of the North and Pineforest Crunch.

For those fond of music references, Marble Raft has been inspired by bands such as Alvvays, Jens Lekman, The Magnetic Fields, Cocteau Twins and Chairlift.

Review quotes:

“…as if Saint Etienne had decided to raise their sunny and melodic level to the maximum by making a vivid duet with Alvvays."  - Indie for Bunnies

"It's hard to find better indie pop than Marble Raft's dreamy, melodic pop. This pretty pop pearl truly shimmers."- Hymn.se

"Beautiful and exciting debut. The soundscape can be likened to a green meadow on a summer day." - Nöjesguiden

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