The Gist -Interior Windows -TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS / CARGO LP Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

1. YANKS
2. STONES AND SUNLIGHT #2
3. BEING TRUE (BAND VERSION)
4. THIS IS LOVE
5. GREENER GRASS
6. PUBLIC GIRLS (DEMO)
7. HOW TO BE
8. THE LANDMARK
9. C ME
10. WORKING IT OUT
11. YOU WERE THE ONE
12. UNSETTLED HASH
13. HERE COMES LOVE #2
14. PIANO PIECE
15. STONES AND SUNLIGHT #3
16. MISTAKES IN LOVE

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In the wake of Young Marble Giantsâ?? breakup, two camps were created, with Stuart Moxham taking the bandâ??s minimalist, geometric play to extremes and Alison Statton adding more warmth and feeling to the same basic template and creating something stunning but based in popular forms. Those two opposing - almost knee-jerk - means of forging new paths away from one of musicâ??s most astonishingly unique debuts both happened to include Stuartâ??s brother - Alisonâ??s former boyfriend - Phil Moxham. In recent years, both artists have almost reversed course, with Stuart proving himself an ace songwriter in classic pop form, and Alisonâ??s work again approaching a modern abstraction of quiet folk music - experimental but accessible. But thatâ??s another tale. Without a real template to guide him, Stuartâ??s new form of music - as The Gist - was widely regarded as wildly uneven. Stuart admits that he didnâ??t know which way to go, so in perverse style, he decided to take all directions at once. The Gistâ??s original discography stood at a scant 18 songs, but only seven featured Stuartâ??s own voice, often in heavily processed and oddly mixed form. So while The Gistâ??s label, Rough Trade, had the widest array of unique voices in popular music, Stuart buried his own voice. Sales disappointed. The Gist were dropped. A decade later, starting with a critical reevaluation of The Gistâ??s sole album, Embrace The Herd, in an issue of Mojo, the tide begin to turn. Ambience in pop music had enjoyed a cult following from Eno on, but the non-linear structure of many of The Gistâ??s songs had certain parallels with the rise of artists such as Aphex Twin and Seefeel. One song from the era was covered by Etienne Daho in France. Sounding rather advanced for French pop at the time, it ended up selling over a million copies and was later covered by Lush and sampled by DJ Koze with Lambchop singer/songwriter Kurt Wagner. The Gistâ??s story could have been different. Recent discovery of a trove of unreleased songs, versions and demos showed that Stuart had ample material on a par with his YMG work, sometimes in rough demo form, but often in five or six complete, entirely different arrangements. With the 2017 album of unreleased material by The Gist, Holding Pattern, a new audience discovered the band and the release sold out quickly. Interior Windows adds 13 new performances or alternate versions to the bandâ??s catalogue, and does the service of finally making both sides of The Gistâ??s first 7â? 45 (recorded at the same session as the final YMG single) available again, along with their contribution to the Rough Trade / NME classic compilation C81, and in keeping with The Gistâ??s tradition, at least one song on which Stuart does not appear. -

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00141351

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