Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth Review

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Young marble giants colossal youth review.

Colossal youth ticks like a not yet exploded bomb. Young marble giants 1980 debut colossal youth unknowingly sparked an underground movement that it still influences today. The band emerged from the remains of a former band true wheel singer alison. Released in february 1980 on rough trade catalog no.

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. Comparable to little else from its time or since this is rock music at its most austere. Gideon coe bbc radio 6 music.

Add to collection add to wantlist remove from wantlist. They went as silently as they arrived slinking back into the dark forever lost in shadows. From the 1980 album of the same name. Colossal youth an album by young marble giants.

Marketplace 0 35 for sale from 17 86. 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. Subsequent cd editions added a few more. 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.

6 music live hour bbc radio 6 music. 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. This 1994 reissue through crepuscle fe. The original album had 15 songs.