Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth Review

Young marble giants 1980 debut colossal youth unknowingly sparked an underground movement that it still influences today.

Young marble giants colossal youth review.

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From the 1980 album of the same name. Subsequent cd editions added a few more. Their haunting post punk come down sounds are likened to tricky portishead and joy division. Colossal youth is the only studio album by welsh post punk band young marble giants released in february 1980 on rough trade records young marble giants were offered the opportunity to record the album after rough trade heard just two songs by the band on the local cardiff music compilation is the war over.

6 music live hour bbc radio 6 music. This 1994 reissue through crepuscle fe. Colossal youth an album by young marble giants. Comparable to little else from its time or since this is rock music at its most austere.

Young marble giants colossal youth is a collection of sparse evocative tunes emphasizing alison statton s floating vocals and minimal guitar organ bass drum machine arrangements. They went as silently as they arrived slinking back into the dark forever lost in shadows. Discover releases reviews credits songs and more about young marble giants colossal youth at discogs. Alison statton aka text voice role id 1001 aka text philip moxham bass stuart moxham guitar organ young marble giants producer aka text arrangements role id 1013 aka text dave anderson producer aka text arrangements.

Colossal youth ticks like a not yet exploded bomb. The original album had 15 songs. Marketplace 0 35 for sale from 17 86. The band emerged from the remains of a former band true wheel singer alison.