Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth

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.

Young marble giants colossal youth.

Colossal youth young marble giants. But because it has that lack of slickness it really draws you in young marble giants split in 1980 with recognition and touring inflaming internal tensions. Young marble giants released just one full length studio album. Complete your young marble giants collection.

They went as silently as they arrived slinking back into the dark forever lost in shadows. If you think the world is a machine with one cog and that cog is you. The band emerged from the remains of a former band true wheel singer alison. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1980 vinyl release of colossal youth on discogs.

Colossal youth was quite a phenomenon says byrne. Produced by young marble giants. Colossal youth music for evenings the man amplifier choci loni wu. Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time.

It s the archetype of bedroom made music. Comparable to little else from its time or since this is rock music at its most austere. The original album had 15 songs. 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.

Discover releases reviews credits songs and more about young marble giants colossal youth at discogs. Subsequent cd editions added a few more. 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.