Young Marble Giantas

Welsh new wave band who shocked the world by being quiet and introspective in an age of loud punk posturing.

Young marble giantas.

Young marble giants were a post punk band from cardiff wales a trio formed in 1978. Young marble giants released just one full length studio album. Music profile for young marble giants formed 1978. They consisted of alison statton vocals stuart moxham guitar and phillip moxham bass occasionally joined by keyboardist peter joyce.

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. Young marble giants were a post punk band formed in cardiff wales in 1978 their music was based around the vocals of alison statton along with the minimalist instrumentation of brothers philip and stuart moxham. Statton went on to form weekend who later became working week. Extremely low tech drum machine effects and home made.

Find young marble giants bio music credits awards streaming links on allmusic welsh trio of the 1980s the embodiment of. Young marble giants discography and songs. They made one great album colossal youth 1980 on rough trade recorded very cheaply often using the first take.