Young Marble Giantas

Young marble giants were a post punk band from cardiff wales a trio formed in 1978.

Young marble giantas.

Young marble giants released just one full length studio album. They made one great album colossal youth 1980 on rough trade recorded very cheaply often using the first take. Music profile for young marble giants formed 1978. 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.

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. Statton went on to form weekend who later became working week. Young marble giants discography and songs.

Welsh new wave band who shocked the world by being quiet and introspective in an age of loud punk posturing. Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time. Moxham and mottram became the gist and made more records for rough trade.