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Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth

Will Hermes, Spin, October 2007

THIS EXQUISITE trio's sole LP, released in 1980, is coolly minimal and warmly human, all understated guitar and bass lines, chintzy organ riffs, and cheap-drum-machine click tracks, with a choirgirl placidly speak-singing about breakups, the apocalypse, and other bummers.

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