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Young Marble Giants
Young Marble Giants were a Cardiff post punk musical trio formed in 1978 (see 1978 in music). Their style featured minimal instrumentation provided by brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham, supporting the coolly plaintive vocals of singer, Alison Statton. Early influences included Eno, Kraftwerk, Neil Young, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Can and others.
Whilst signed to UK independent record label, Rough Trade they released two EPs, "Final Day" and "Testcard", and one acclaimed and very influential album entitled Colossal Youth (a reference to the statues implied in their name). It was revealed in the 2003 book Journals that the band were, along with Scotland's The Vaselines, Kurt Cobain's favourite band.
The YMGs were somewhat acquainted in their early days with Scritti Politti, the band of Cardiff native Green Gartside , and ended up signed to Rough Trade records, that the Scritts were also signed to.
Stuart Moxham formed The Gist after YMG split up in 1981. Alison Statton formed Weekend.
It was rumoured that the band might reform in 2004 to make new recordings, but this project has not yet surfaced.
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