The Final Day Young Marble Giants

Final day is so brilliantly simple and slight a pop song running just over a minute and a half with gentle guitar plucking hardly audible keyboards alison statton s wallflower vocals and the constant wheeze of what sounds like a theremin that you couldn t be faulted for wondering why most twee pop bands in the young marble giants wake have ever bothered.

The final day young marble giants.

Albums include colossal youth final day radio silents cakewalking and wanna buy a bridge. Still so fresh each play is a rare pleasure. Rough trade rt 043 format. Their early sound was a sharp contrast with the more aggressive punk rock that dominated the underground at the time.

Young marble giants released just one full length studio album. Young marble giants final day. Young marble giants were a post punk band formed in cardiff wales in 1978 their music was based around the vocals of alison statton along with the minimalist instrumentation of brothers philip and stuart moxham. Music profile for young marble giants formed 1978.

Young marble giants discography and songs. Spare intimate concise and quite possibly perfect the complete recordings of young marble giants are available on colossal youth collected works the cardiff group s sole legendary album colossal youth originally released on the rough trade label in 1980 and one of the definitive albums of the post punk era is also available as a standalone release. Shop for vinyl cds and more from young marble giants at the discogs marketplace. Young marble giants final day label.

When the rich die last like the rabbits running from a lucky past full of shadow cunning and the world lights up for the final day.