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Singer Alison Statton, born in Cardiff,Wales, began her music career with enigmatic, new wave minimalists
Young Marble Giants, which released its defining LP,
Colossal Youth, in 1980. Statton's coolly unadorned vocals were one of the defining characteristics of that incomparable post-punk landmark. With her subsequent group,
Weekend, Statton preempted the posh, cocktail-cool of acts such as
Everything But the Girl and
Sade. After
Weekend disbanded, Statton returned to university and disappeared from the musical landscape for a time. Nevertheless, she resurfaced in the late '80s as one half of the Celtic-tinged folk-pop duo
Devine & Statton, along with Mancunian songwriter-guitarist Ian Devine. The pair made two albums, 1989's
The Prince of Wales (which featured a cover of
New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle") and 1990s
Cardiffians. Subsequently, Statton would go on to reunite with an old
Weekend bandmate as
Alison Statton & Spike. ~ Erik Hage