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: Because it has to be flowing water, so lakes are good, but there’s something primal about getting in there among the weeds and critters—a voyeuristic pleasure in entering another world, as when you put your face into a big rockpool. I’m lucky, here in Wiltshire, to be surrounded by clear chalk streams full of brown trout, roach, perch, etc., and coots, heron, white egrets and such around, too. There’s one particular place, a spawning pool, with a grassy area to sunbathe and a strong current coming over an underwater ledge that’s excellent, on a hot afternoon, to get in and watch the minnows and sticklebacks doing the same thing: fighting the flow to stay in place in the sunlit water.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25E0ACkA6uo
