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Young marble giants were offered the opportunity to record the album after rough trade heard just two songs by the band on the local cardiff music compilation is the war over. On their website they say that domino are proud to re release colossal youth and the collected works of young marble giants drawing together the band s album and singles for the first time ever on a cd set. Young marble giant s output is spread over three disks with colossal youth retained in its pristine state on the first of these. Produced by young marble giants.

Young marble giants were as cool and precious as a snowflake and just as perfect and individual and in colossal youth they produced a genuine lost classic a landmark album that has gone largely unheard and undiscovered. Cd2 collects together various eps and alternate takes while the third cd contains the giants only session for john peel. Young marble giants colossal youth is a collection of sparse evocative tunes emphasizing alison statton s floating vocals and minimal guitar organ bass drum machine arrangements. Colossal youth young marble giants.

The original album had 15 songs. Complete your young marble giants collection. Comparable to little else from its time or since this is rock music at its most austere. If you think the world is a machine with one cog and that cog is you.

Subsequent cd editions added a few more. Young marble giants released just one full length studio album colossal youth in 1980. They went as silently as they arrived slinking back into the dark forever lost in shadows. Colossal youth is the only studio album by welsh post punk band young marble giants released in february 1980 on rough trade records.