Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth Review

This 1994 reissue through crepuscle fe.

Young marble giants colossal youth review.

Complete your young marble giants collection. Colossal youth ticks like a not yet exploded bomb. Gideon coe bbc radio 6 music. Released in february 1980 on rough trade catalog no.

Colossal youth an album by young marble giants. Marketplace 0 35 for sale from 17 86. In theory include me out is a mighty garage rocker something the stones or count five could ve played with a sneer and a great big beat. Young marble giants were as cool and precious as a snowflake and just as perfect and individual and in colossal youth they produced a genuine lost classic a landmark album that has gone largely unheard and undiscovered.

6 music live hour bbc radio 6 music. Comparable to little else from its time or since this is rock music at its most austere. Their haunting post punk come down sounds are likened to tricky portishead and joy division. They went as silently as they arrived slinking back into the dark forever lost in shadows.

Subsequent cd editions added a few more. Young marble giants 1980 debut colossal youth unknowingly sparked an underground movement that it still influences today. 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. Young marble giants colossal youth review.

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. The band emerged from the remains of a former band true wheel singer alison. From the 1980 album of the same name. 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.