Drive-in Records was a nice label that released a lot of classic 7″ singles in the late 90s mostly. On their catalog, Drive 43, was a 7″ by Marble Index. It was actually a co-release with Saltwater Records (SW-005), a label from Kingston, New Hampshire.

Drive-In on the other hand hailed from Grand Rapids, Michigan.. I remember that behind it was Mike Babb who ended up working in the early 2000s on the Microindie label.

Marble Index’s 7″ is really nice. I don’t know the name of the person behind the songs, but he also released another record on Drive-In under the moniker of Chapter 13. A very nice record too.

It seems he previously had written music under the name Marine Parade. It seems there are no recordings by this band. I read he also considered to be called other names including Anatomies & Universals and A Warm House in Winter.

The 7″ released in 1999 had the songs “Love Talking to Boys” on the A side and “Plan K” on the B side. The engineer was Julian Tardo who also co-produced with the band. Tardo was part of the fantastic band Earwig that released in La-Di-Da Records (I haven’t written about them yet, shame on me). He is based in Hove, United Kingdom, and these days he works as a recording engineer and producer at Church Road Studios. He was also in bands like Insides and Johnson.

Does this means that Marble Index hailed from that area? Brighton? Hove?

The artist behind this project would go on to be Chapter 13 as I mentioned and later on, between 2006 and 2008 as Spectators of Life. I think I should write about Chapter 13. The “Crisco Disco” 7″ is a favourite. I don’t know the other bands.

The last interesting bit was that there was an intention to re-release Marble Index music on CD. I wonder who was going to put it out and what happened?

Anyone remembers them?

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Marble Index – Love Talking to Boys