Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth Blogspot

Young marble giants colossal youth rough trade rough 8 1980.

Young marble giants colossal youth blogspot. Young marble giants 1980 debut colossal youth unknowingly sparked an underground movement that it still influences today. 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. Mythkoz i remember your old blog. The band emerged from the remains of a former band true wheel singer alison.

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. Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time. Rock pop style. Discover releases reviews credits songs and more about young marble giants colossal youth at discogs.

View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1980 vinyl release of colossal youth on discogs. And you are french are you not. Young marble giants colossal youth demos self released 1979 meanwhile back in south wales we present some super claustrophobic demos from cardiff s own introspective minimalists young marble giants. 19 may 2017 at 19 51.

Indie pop post punk minimal. From the 1980 album of the same name. 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. Vinyl lp album country.

Their haunting post punk come down sounds are likened to tricky portishead and joy division. This 1994 reissue through crepuscle fe. Had some old school punk on it that appeared nowhere else on the web. One of my fav bands songs albums.

Young marble giants released just one full length studio album. They went as silently as they arrived slinking back into the dark forever lost in shadows.