Beschreibung

Taking the unprecedented step of making Young Marble Giants first ever release a long player certainly paid off. Released in 1980 Colossal Youth became a parallel soundtrack to the unsteady stabs of the post punk early eighties, and quickly became one of (the then nascent) Rough Trade Records best sellers. Becalmed, resigned and a little tense, it created a new vocabulary for song. Colossal Youth was followed by a couple of EPs, and then the group split up, to everyone s surprise and dismay. 

Combining sparse, home made drum machine rhythms, electric organ lines, funky bass and taut guitar chords, along with Alison Statton s clear, true vocal makes for one of the most evocative and atmospheric albums of the post-punk era.