Colossal Youth Marble

From the 1980 album of the same name.
Colossal youth marble. Young marble giants released just one full length studio album colossal youth in 1980. Complete your young marble giants collection. Comparable to little else from its time or since this is rock music at its most austere. 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.
They went as silently as they arrived slinking back into the dark forever lost in shadows. On their website they say that domino are proud to re release colossal youth and the collected works of young marble giants drawing together the band s album and singles for the first time ever on a cd set. The original album had 15 songs. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1980 vinyl release of colossal youth on discogs.
Colossal youth young marble giants. Produced by young marble giants. Subsequent cd editions added a few more. 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.
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. Cd2 collects together various eps and alternate takes while the third cd contains the giants only session for john peel. Colossal youth is the only studio album by welsh post punk band young marble giants released in february 1980 on rough trade records. Running from a lucky past.