"Most music – well, unless it is totally experimental and off the wall – has roots. You can see where it has come from, what influences play upon it, what the inspiration is. With the benefit of hindsight you can also see where it was going, what it would lead to. There is none of this with Young Marble Giants. They can’t be compared to anybody else – either in their past or their future. They arrived in 1978, split up in 1980, and released one album and two EPs. YMG were like nothing before and since. Colossal Youth (the album) was their first release i.e. before the EPs and it turned up in 1980, like nothing else at the time, so different, but perfectly formed. It was if they had followed a different path to get where they were; it was just a different kind of music. ..."
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2015 August: Young Marble Giants
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