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The Gist was formed by <a href="spotify:artist:5OpX27WuVqFYEeB6QYvhs7">Stuart Moxham</a> as a side project from his post-punk/twee pop pioneering band <a href="spotify:artist:0tQ2Q4y9iUkKszxXyB14ZH">Young Marble Giants</a>, but their first single appeared on the racks six weeks prior to the split of <a href="spotify:artist:0tQ2Q4y9iUkKszxXyB14ZH">YMG</a>, in December of 1980. Embrace the Herd, the group's lone LP, was released in May 1981. Reviewed favorably but not quite as glowingly as <a href="spotify:artist:0tQ2Q4y9iUkKszxXyB14ZH">Young Marble Giants</a>, the record shared a similar knack for dynamic but understated arrangements. A couple singles followed afterward, with the band dissolving by 1984 or so. For the Gist, <a href="spotify:artist:5OpX27WuVqFYEeB6QYvhs7">Moxham</a> recorded with a number of friends rather than a fixed set of bandmates. Former <a href="spotify:artist:0tQ2Q4y9iUkKszxXyB14ZH">YMG</a> members <a href="spotify:artist:208DDxBJHXOxgou4wWiQUV">Alison Statton</a> and Phil Moxham helped out, as well as various people from fellow Rough Trade artists <a href="spotify:artist:1hJWecjPWroTl28fARuPd9">Essential Logic</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1FGzeqDPTLZwfbfxpmPAZn">Swell Maps</a>. <a href="spotify:artist:5OpX27WuVqFYEeB6QYvhs7">Moxham</a> later issued a number of records under his own name. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi
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