Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth

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Young marble giants colossal youth.

From the 1980 album of the same name. 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. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1980 vinyl release of colossal youth on discogs. Colossal youth music for evenings the man amplifier choci loni wu.

If you think the world is a machine with one cog and that cog is you. Colossal youth was quite a phenomenon says byrne. The band emerged from the remains of a former band true wheel singer alison. Colossal youth young marble giants.

Produced by young marble giants. Young marble giants released just one full length studio album. Subsequent cd editions added a few more. Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time.

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. Complete your young marble giants collection. It s the archetype of bedroom made music. 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.

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. They went as silently as they arrived slinking back into the dark forever lost in shadows. The original album had 15 songs.