They then signed to EMI in ’83 and released their first single ‘Just My Love’ released in early 1984

Central to everything is Bertie’s commanding voice

shows Scientist’s mastery of the studio-as-instrument concept

old cans of paint strewn about

look at that SICK artwork

YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS - Colossal Youth LP Industrial They then signed to EMITaking the unprecedented step of making Young Marble Giants' first ever release a long player certainly paid off. Released in 1980 "Colossal Youth" became a parallel soundtrack to the unsteady stabs of the post punk early eighties, and quickly became one of (the then nascent) Rough Trade Records best sellers. Becalmed, resigned and a little tense, it created a new vocabulary for song. "Colossal Youth" was followed by a couple of EPs, and then the