Sunday 29 May 2011

Song Of The Day 29/05/2011: Young Marble Giants - Music For Evenings

Following on from yesterday's decidedly minimalist Eux Autres post, today's song is one of the most deliciously minimalist of all bands, Young Marble Giants. As we've established before, I absolutely love this kind of post-punk stuff, in that it's influenced by punk morals and the sense of freedom but the bands are trying to move away from the (mostly pretty boring) musical sensibilities of first wave punk. This stuff all still sounds so amazingly fresh. The YMG album, in particular, could easily have been released yesterday.

Anyway, YMG. Today's song is from their one proper album, Colossal Youth, and it's my favourite track. The most enchanting theing about them, I think, is how stripped-down the sound is, retaining only what's absolutely necessary for the song (usually a primitively circuit-bent drum machine, heavily muted guitar, and lovely naive-sounding vocals). The lyrics to this one nicely encapsulate the late-night atmosphere of the whole album. YMG are playing at All Tomorrow's Parties in December, so I'm finally going to get to see them. I'm pretty excited!

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