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Few indie artists have influenced as many musicians as Stuart Moxham has in his career. Whether as a member of Young Marble Giants, the G!st or solo, the Cardiff, Wales, native has produced one of the most distinctive catalogs of the past 30 years. His latest release, Personal Best (hABIT), is a 20-track compilation of solo material from 1981 to the present. Moxham and the other members of YMG have performed together again recently, and many longtime fanatics are hoping the group finally records a follow-up to 1980’s Colossal Youth, its sole album. Personal Best, however, proves that Moxham has turned out plenty of worthy music on his own. Moxham will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.
Moxham: “When something looks right, it usually is.” Also because the Supermarine Spitfire symbolises British patriotism: all that deeply unmentionable, woolly, uncool and generally risible, emotional and politically suspect stuff which kids of the ’50s, like me, grew up with. Well I’ve got news: It’s precisely the big, vague, emotional stuff under the cynical surface veneer which determines what we do in the final analysis. See: soap operas.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRORkfFj10U
