Young Marble Giantas

They made one great album colossal youth 1980 on rough trade recorded very cheaply often using the first take.

Young marble giantas.

Moxham and mottram became the gist and made more records for rough trade. Young marble giants released just one full length studio album. 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 discography and songs.

They consisted of alison statton vocals stuart moxham guitar and phillip moxham bass occasionally joined by keyboardist peter joyce. Extremely low tech drum machine effects and home made. Welsh new wave band who shocked the world by being quiet and introspective in an age of loud punk posturing. Find young marble giants bio music credits awards streaming links on allmusic welsh trio of the 1980s the embodiment of.

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. Music profile for young marble giants formed 1978. Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time.