The Marbles - Old from Lack of Sleep (1989, Flammedia)

Not to be confused with the Robert Schneider (Apples in Stereo) side project, or the there-for-a-minute indie/power-pop NYC wunderkinds who released a single on the legendary Ork Records in 1976, these Marbles hailed from New Jersey, and if anything else were responsible for a somewhat interesting album sleeve.  As for the music contained within...at least there's a lot of it, practically two LPs worth of tunes, albeit this trio never really settle on a definitive sound.  Sort of very intermediate AOR dabbling sprinkled in with some occasional power pop-adjacent maneuvers.  "Raining" would have made for a convincing outtake from say, Black Vinyl Shoes, and I like what the Marbles flex on the meaty "She Writes." Elsewhere they sound like they're really going somewhere on "Dark Confetti," and the appealing opening salvo, "Love." Overall, Old From Lack of Sleep would have benefitted from an edited setlist, and a little more focus and distinguishability from it's three architects.  Still worth investigating, and with seventeen songs you're bound to find something you like. 

01. Love

02. Drunk and Insane

03. Corridors

04. Raining

05. Clayman

06. Randabelle

07. Train to London

08. The Age of Nothing

09. Book of the Crazed

10. Really, Really, Really

11. Dark Confetti

12. Interwoven Touchy Thoughts

13. She Writes

14. Cat Song

15. Fineline

16. Anger

17. Tired

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