Young Marble Giants Followers

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Young marble giants followers.

Young marble giants category. Live at the hurrah colossal youth top tracks. I think you ve already guessed as this post is about the young marble giants colossal apocalypso ode to the creeping shadow of the nuclear holocaust. The demo s that weekend made were far less jazzy than their debut lp and as a result a lot more palatable dare one suggest that they sound like a more tuneful and dreamy young marble giants.

Young marble giants were simply too unusual a shape too fit neatly into the abstract categories of post punk and the recounting of its history. Being from the comparative outback as far as music was concerned young marble giants developed their own distinctive stripped down sound far removed from anything coming. If there was ever a video made for this it should show devasting explosions vaporising children in slow motion. Trophy positioned on the shelves with the likes of fellow rough traders the raincoats they made much less noise and consequently were resigned to little more than a major footnote in the indie chronicles.

Young marble giants sculpted a sparse sound in the muted monochromatic machinations of this charmingly unconventional abstract. The third is a 1980 peel session recording. Listen to songs by young marble giants on myspace stream free online music by young marble giants. Young marble giants colossal youth collected works 1980 three disc complitation album by the excellent but very short lived young marble giants.

The first disc is their first and only proper album colossal youth. Brothers philip and stuart moxham started the band with philip s girlfriend allison statton in 1978. Young marble giants s songs. The album is kind of all over the place but their style is mainly like a new wave bossa nova samba with plenty of bass saxophone and bongo drums.

The second is a collection of their eps and singles. It s rare for any band s earliest recordings to warrant attention outside of their most fanatical followers but in the case of the young marble giants salad days a collection of 15 songs dating back to their very first home studio sessions such interest is rewarded. Although nowhere near as brilliant as their colossal youth album the set is an even purer distillation of the group s. There was actually a virtual fourth member of the band a cousin of mine and phil s pete joyce.

Believe it or not but this is actually a side project of two members from young marble giants. The two groups sound so completely different that you d never make the connection on your own.