Welsh new wave band who shocked the world by being quiet and introspective in an age of loud punk posturing.
Young marble giants singer.
Moxham and mottram became the gist and made more records for rough trade.
Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time.
Young marble giants were a post punk band formed in cardiff wales in 1978.
Fans of the singer have included kurt cobain courtney love stephin merritt belle and sebastian and renato russo.
Young marble giants don t play live very often.
Spare intimate concise and quite possibly perfect the complete recordings of young marble giants are available on colossal youth collected works the cardiff group s sole legendary album colossal youth originally released on the rough trade label in 1980 and one of the definitive albums of the post punk era is also available as a standalone release.
Statton went on to form weekend who later became working week.
It s always about me re facing the awkwardness that i ve always felt with live performance she tells mojo in familiarly soft tones.
Their music was based around the vocals of alison statton along with the minimalist instrumentation of brothers philip and stuart moxham.