{"title":"Stuart Moxham","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"six-winter-mornings","title":"Six Winter Mornings","description":"\u003cp\u003eex young marble giants frontman stuart moxham presents his latest mini album entitled 'six winter mornings'. the eye-defying darkness and blood rumbling silence of winter nights, deep in rural wiltshire, make sunrise a much anticipated event; a beautiful blessing of light as seductive and demanding of depiction as the more traditional sunset scene. these songs came from a onesome six year sojourn in a remote cottage, on the edge of salisbury plain, where the context of endless peace and space was an intense experience and a priceless education.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50439827718475,"sku":"340986","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c8bd5751-97e1-462b-a8f7-6f1df0db500e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726956894"},{"product_id":"personal-best-2","title":"Personal Best","description":"\u003cp\u003e'personal best' covers every corner of stuart moxham's post-young marble giants output over the last thirty years. truly a mixed bag, it features unheard outings from the g!st of the early 80's, through his solo albums of the 90's, including the mysteriously unreleased american sessions for 'plan a', to previews of the latest stuff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50439829619019,"sku":"327520","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f7431bbe-8901-47f8-b9e7-2089b9c64114_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726956914"},{"product_id":"fabstract","title":"Fabstract","description":"\u003cp\u003eYoung 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\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tiny Global Productions","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50454528393547,"sku":"2208522","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50454534685003,"sku":"2208525","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Stuart_Moxham__Fabstract_3f4f46bb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727184499"},{"product_id":"winter-sun-1","title":"Winter Sun","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFew artists arrive as compellingly yet elusively as did Stuart Moxham upon the startling debut of Young Marble Giant’s sole studio album, Colossal Youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eInitial excitement was thrust upon the young Alison Statton, who sang songs written by Stuart with a couple of exceptions. The unaffected tone of her voice was in steep contrast to the typical goings-on in that still quite punky time, but it was what she sang that fully sold it. Moxham’s lyrics were both intensely personal and woefully oblique. There seemed to be a sort of story in there. Confusingly, that story often felt like it was Alison’s rather than the fellow who’d penned it. The unexpected miracle a deal with Rough Trade and the album’s subsequent success had the band stymied for a second act and it wasn’t long before the group disintegrated, although circumstances often brought members and a few of their peers - among them Debbie Pritchard, Spike Williams, and a third Moxham brother, Drew. - Phil Moxham was the band’s bassist - together in odd combinations and pairings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNone of the three YMG members have been especially prolific, but it’s Stuart’s career that has seemed the least straightforward, as if he’d wondered, “What to do when your debut is a nearly perfect artefact?” In the case of his first “solo” full-length in thirty years, Stuart took the unusual step of entering an alien studio with American producer Dave Trumfio (who’s also the leader of Pulsars and bassist for Mekons) and allowing him to decide what tracks (of a large number submitted by Stuart) to record, and how they’d be orchestrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOr not. In this case - save for the writing and composing - it’s really Dave’s album as much as Stuart’s. The tracks went with Dave back to LA, where they were mixed, a few parts added (including subtle backing vocals from the incredible Linda Smith) . . . then later unmixed and reworked by John Henderson and Roni Ayala back in Valencia. Both versions will be made available, and both have a compelling cohesion missing from some of Stuart’s work since YMG. Stuart’s minimalism is quite intact, the range of emotions quite wide. There are few artists operating today like Stuart Moxham, a composer of the upper echelon of innate talent who combines avant-garde ideas with deceptively forthright personal lyrics, solid hooks, ambience and vaguely off-centre instrumentation which defies the casual marketplace as confoundingly as it ever did to the underground, whatever that is these days. His songs have been admired and \/ covered by everyone from Lush to Kurt Cobain, adaptations in Japanese and even a French-language hit by Etienne Daho, adaptations by Hole, Galaxie 500, Magnetic Fields, Belle And Sebastian and many others - but a new Stuart Moxham album is a special kind of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tiny Global Productions","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56296194539851,"sku":"R2439-4368","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56296194572619,"sku":"R2439-3699","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/StuartMoxham-WinterSun.jpg?v=1768305360"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/stuart-moxham.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}