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 young marble giants.

Complete your young marble giants the gist weekend collection. Their music was based around the vocals of alison statton along with the minimalist instrumentation of brothers philip and stuart moxham. Discover releases reviews track listings recommendations and more about young marble giants the gist weekend nipped in the bud at discogs. Young marble giants were a post punk band formed in cardiff wales in 1978.

Weekend are alison statton spike reptile and simon booth. Recorded at foel studios a1 to a3 a10 b1 home a1 to a9 cold storage b2 and blackwing b3 to b6. 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. 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.

Young marble giants released just one full length studio album colossal youth in 1980. Young marble giants are alison statton philip moxham and stuart moxham. 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.