Review: Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
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Although they were never the most critically or commercially successful band of the post-punk movement, you could make the the argument that when Young Marble Giants released "Colossal Youth" in 1980, they came the closest to achieve the movement's goals of re-configuring music in a way that was new and that had nothing to do with the conventions of rock and roll. The three members of the group (Alison Statton and brothers Stuart and Philip Moxham) were an anti-power trio, making quiet minimalist music using only the barest elements possible: primitive machine-generated rhythms, muted guitar and bass, flat vocals, and...
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