Young Marble Giants Singles And Salad Days

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 singles and salad days.

On cd albeit quite hard to find and of course new fans should go for that first. Colossal youth album 1980. An album that has influenced the likes of nirvana and belle sebastian with its. Still this is a great album holding vast similarities to eno especially another green world and the magnetic fields.

Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time. Colossal youth is the legendary debut album by young marble giants. Young marble giants released just one full length studio album. The young marble giant s masterpiece is colossal youth though and i wish they d carry that.

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. Young marble giants salad days label. Young marble giants colossal youth 33 1 3. If you like sound blips via stereolab this is their roots.

I m giving 3 stars because salad days is essential only to people already sold. Since ymg released only 1 album 1 single and 1 ep however if you want to dig deeper you have to go for this and the hurrah live dvd. Vinyl japan askcd113 format. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2000 cd release of salad days on discogs.