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. Comparable to little else from its time or since, this is ock music at its most austere. The original album had 15 songs; subsequent CD editions added a few more. But the 2007 edition on Domino is the one to buy, pushing the total to 46 tracks, with additions from the Testcard EP, the 1979 "Final Day" single, the Salad Days album, a compilation cut, and a 1980 session for John Peel -- everything they ever did, in fact.
After something like a thirty-year kip, Cardiff's style makers Young Marble Giants have surprised everyone by surfacing from sleep, settling their differences and playing gigs once again. The trio made up of brothers Stuart and Phil Moxham with Alison Statton, and the recent addition of a further brother Andrew, played a homecoming show in the National Museum of Wales recently for the Swn Fest...
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This is where I would put the requisite pun that a story like this deserves, something along the lines of: "ATP just got more YOUTHful" or maybe I could do "Young Marble Giants announce GIANT show." However I won't bore you with puns and stupid plays on words, because I can write better than that. Ah, the hell with it! I need to do at least one, right? Young Marble Giants made Colossal headlines
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