Released: 2024
Format : LP, Album, Dlx, Ltd + CD, MiniAlbum, Ltd LP, Album
Label: Tiny Global Productions,Tiny Global Productions
Catalogue No: PICI-0062-LP, PICI-0062-EX
Style : Alternative Rock, Post-Punk
Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
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Young Marble Giants' "Colossal Youth" has mystified and beguiled audiences since its 1980 release. Seen by primary songwriter Stuart Moxham as "a last gasp" at making a record, Stuart insisted the one-off 7" deal offered by Rough Trade be altered to allow an entire album . . . that paid off when with a big seller which produces cover versions even from bands whose members were a decade or two away from being born on the album's release. When YMG disbanded, Stuart was at a loss; he'd never envisioned a follow-up. A series of experimental recordings made with pal Phil Legg (Essential Logic) and supported by other YMG members, musicians from This Heat and Swell Maps, old Cardiffian pals, and new friends like Vivien Goldman resulted in an album, "Embrace The Herd", as The Gist. Released just before Rough Trade made bold moves toward pop charts with Scritti Politti, The Smiths and others, the album was odd for its time, but has since taken on the lustre of genius. Years of silence followed, thereafter intermittently broken by the odd release from small labels. Stuart delved into family life, though he never stopped writing and recording. In more recent years, two retrospective compilation of lost recordings by The Gist have been released, as well as a superb collaboration with French arranger Louis Philippe, "The Devil Laughs". "Fabstract" is the final gathering of Stuart's lost recordings. Compiling long-lost YMG-era tracks with the recent brilliance of "Crow, Crow" and "Suburban Monochrome", through bits of whimsy and vastly alternate versions of fan faves, this diverse album shouldn't work . . . but it does, telling a satisfying story of an underrated talent whose mistake was following his muse, not the charts. This album precedes a new recording, years in the making, produced by Dave Trumfio, which promises to be Stuart's most complete - and original - work since "Colossal Youth".
A1. Various Organs
A2. Crow, Crow
A3. Night By Night (Version 3)
A4. Angelic Eye Are
A5. Last Summer (Ilkeston Version)
A6. Shark Attacks
A7. Two Minute Warning
A8. Suburban Monochrome
B1. Suburban Monochrome (Instrumental)
B2. My Mouth Is Bored
B3. No One Road (Alternate)
B4. In A Room
B5. Blue Loop (Undubbed)
B6. The Long Run (Demo)
B7. Immaculate Mistake
B8. YMG Unused Organ Riff
. Kit Hill
1. Blissening
2. Again And Again
3. Precious Together
4. B Good
5. As You Were
6. Roads
7. Swinging By
8. Blues Must Out
9. TTFN