The Gist - Interior Windows

In the wake of Young Marble Giants’ breakup, two camps were created, with Stuart Moxham taking the band’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 music’s most astonishingly unique debuts both happened to include Stuart’s brother - Alison’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 Alison’s work again approaching a modern abstraction of quiet folk music - experimental but accessible. But that’s another tale. Without a real template to guide him, Stuart’s new form of music - as The Gist - was widely regarded as wildly uneven. Stuart admits that he didn’t know which way to go, so in perverse style, he decided to take all directions at once. The G