Young Marble Giants: Cardiff After Punk Washed off into the Mouth of Seven
In reading about the now mythic Young Marble Giants, a Brit band put together at the tail end of the seventies as punk stopped being anything near useful, it’s amusing to see time and again the ensemble referred to as either poppy or progenitors of post-punk.
That first concept – the band being poppy – is most likely derived from the fact that YMG’s singer, Alison Statton, possessed a high pitched, pleasant voiced which would have been well suited for sixties’ styled bubblegum work outs. Oddly contrasted with the sparseness of the band’s music, Statton, whose voice is placed high in the mix, floats above what could be understood as minimal music.
