Colossal YouthYoung Marble Giants formed in Cardiff in 1978.  Colossal Youth was their only album & was released in 1980 on Rough Trade.

The album wasrecord was recorded in three and half days for princely sum of £1000.  A far cry from the lavish months Pink Floyd spent on Dark Side of the Moon. The band deliberately went for first takes in a deliberate attempt to keep the music 'alive'.  There was next to no overdubbing.  The preduction was simple but the effect is greater than sum of the parts.

The sound is a sparse use of perscussion loops with bass and guitar or keyboard with Alison Stratton's naive vocals. Their rhythms came from a home made drum machine using diagrams in Practical Wireless magazine.   The songs are simple with a naive quality that cover topics as diverse as failed romances, robots and train crashes.

The result is a warm  and delicious recording.  Go buy the album, have a listen and then make a list of all the bands over the last 20 years that have been influenced by this album.