The Gist Young Marble Giants

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

The gist young marble giants.

Stuart moxham is best known for his involvement with post punk minimalists young marble giants but around the time that group broke up he formed his own project called the gist. The gist are philip moxham and stuart moxham. Young marble giants released just one full length studio album colossal youth in 1980. About young marble giants one of the quirkiest and most idiosyncratic groups to emerge from the early british new wave indie scene young marble giants from cardiff wales were not so much new wave in sound as in strategy.

In the wake of young marble giants breakup two camps were created with stuart moxham taking the band s minimalist geometric play to extremes and alison statton adding more warmth and feeling to the same basic template and creating something stunning but based in popular forms. They subverted conventional pop rock methods by stripping both song construction and instrumentation to its essence. Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time. Complete your young marble giants the gist weekend collection.

Recorded at foel studios a1 to a3 a10 b1 home a1 to a9 cold storage b2 and blackwing b3 to b6. Their music was based around the vocals of alison statton along with the minimalist instrumentation of brothers philip and stuart moxham. Young marble giants colossal youth. Though lesser known than young marble giants output the sole 1983 lp from stuart moxham s the gist is an essential entry in the great canon of eng.