Colossal Youth

For the film, see Colossal Youth (film).

Colossal Youth
Studio album by
Young Marble Giants
ReleasedFebruary 1980 (1980-02)
Recorded1979
StudioFoel (Mid Wales)
GenrePost-punk
Length38:20
LabelRough Trade
Producer
  • Dave Anderson
  • Young Marble Giants
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Blender[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB[3]
The Guardian[4]
The Irish Times[5]
Pitchfork9.3/10[6]
Rolling Stone[7]
Spin[8]
Spin Alternative Record Guide10/10[9]
Uncut[10]

Colossal Youth is the only studio album by Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants, released in February 1980 on Rough Trade Records. 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?[11]

Young Marble Giants developed from an earlier band, True Wheel, (named after a song by Brian Eno from his 1974 LP Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). Alison Statton (vocals), Philip Moxham (bass) and his brother Stuart (guitar and main songwriter), formed Young Marble Giants in 1979. Signed by the Rough Trade label, the band recorded Colossal Youth in a studio in North Wales.[11][12]

  1. ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Colossal Youth – Young Marble Giants". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  2. ^ Dolan, Jon. "Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth". Blender. Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. ^ Petridis, Alexis (22 June 2007). "Young Marble Giants, Colossal Youth". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  5. ^ Carroll, Jim (29 June 2007). "Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth (Domino)". The Irish Times. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  6. ^ Wolk, Douglas (10 August 2007). "Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth and Collected Works". Pitchfork. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  7. ^ Sheffield, Rob (20 September 2007). "Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth". Rolling Stone. No. 1035. p. 97.
  8. ^ Hermes, Will (October 2007). "Reissues". Spin. Vol. 23, no. 10. p. 96. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  9. ^ Weisbard, Eric (1995). "Young Marble Giants". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 446–47. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  10. ^ "Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth". Uncut. p. 121. [With] shadows of Eno and Kraftwerk in their sound, which pitted the fluid bass and spiky guitar of brothers Phil and Stuart Moxham against the clicking pulse of a homemade drum machine.
  11. ^ a b Reynolds, Simon (2007). Colossal Youth & Collected Works (liner notes). Young Marble Giants. Domino Recording Company. REWIGCD32X.
  12. ^ "Young Marble Giants". reynoldsretro.blogspot.com.