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There is no need to want to elevate your Indie-cred to take a break on this page; just simply appreciate the old pop rock with guitars. Orange Juice from Scotland, authors of only four records, two LPs in 1982, an EP, and an LP in 1984. Exquisitely elegant pop rock still full of the urgency and imagination of the best post-punk season, where you can already perfectly hear that jangle pop that will make the fortune of illustrious unknowns like the Smiths and R.E.M. All seasoned with the crooner voice of Edwyn Collins. Little jewels usually meant to be taken out in sentences like "they are the ancestors of Franz Ferdinand because they come from Scotland." We’ll come to terms with it. I hope Orange Juice also came to terms with their increasingly disappointing economic success.
In these cases, it’s always nice when new and quality material is released. The Glasgow School, released in 2005, collects the early singles and the aborted debut album of Orange Juice that never came out. Anyone wanting to find the point where the darkness of Joy Division's post-punk pushed Eighties alternative rock to surpass the old Seventies power pop or a stale Sixties revival will have to pass by here sooner or later.
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