Interior Windows Vinyl Record

Re-press. In the wake of Young Marble Giants breakup, two acts were created, with Stuart Moxham taking minimalist, geometric play to extremes while Alison Statton added more warmth and feeling to a similar template, creating something stunning yet based in popular forms. Those two opposing means of forging paths away from one of musics most astonishingly unique debuts both included Stuarts brother, Phil. With no template to guide him, Stuarts new music - as The Gist - was regarded as wildly uneven. Stuart admits that he didnt know which way to go, so perversely, he decided to take all directions at once. The Gists label, Rough Trade, dropped the band. Starting with a critical re-evaluation of The Gists sole album Embrace The Herd in an issue of Mojo, the tide begin to turn. Ambience in pop has long enjoyed a cult following, and the nonlinear structure of many of The Gists songs have parallels with 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. Recent discovery of a trove of unreleased recordings show that Stuart had held back an array of excellent material, in demo and completed forms, often in different arrangements. Interior Windows adds 13 new performances or alternate versions to the bands catalogue, and does the service of making both sides of The Gists first 7 45 (recorded at the same session as the final YMG single) available again, along with their contribution to the NME / Rough Trade cassette compilation C81.

1. Yanks 2. Stones And Sunlight #2 3. Being True (band version) 4. This Is Love / Greener Grass 5. Public Girls (demo) 6. How To Be 7. The Landmark 8. C Me 9. Working It Out 10. You Were The One 11. Unsettled Hash 12. Here Comes Love #2 13. Piano Piece 14. Stones And Sunlight #3 15. Mistakes In Love

• Released: 2/9/24
• Format Detail: LP
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: Rock