The scottish post-punk band Orange Juice is finally getting the respect they deserve! Domino Records announced the release of an Orange Juice Boxset, a seven disc anthology spanning their whole career and includes extras such as 16 unreleased tracks and 23 tracks that weren’t available digitally before. Titled Coals To Newcastle, it even contains a DVD that documents their videos and tv appearances as well as the concert video Dada With (The) Juice, snippets of which have been glimpsed on youtube, albeit in 80s Betamax quality. Head honcho Edwyn Collins formed the band back in 1979 and they were very different from other post-punk bands in the sense that they took their inspiration from the jangling pop of the 60´s, Motown´s pop-soul sensibilities and the funk and beat of disco besides the usual Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, David Bowie influence. Their first recording, the ever excellent Falling and Laughing (released on the legendary Glasgow label, Postcard, who also released singles by fellow scottish bands Josef K and Aztec Camera) quickly brought them into the attention of the music press and soon after they signed to Polydor.

Not long after finishing the first album You Can´t Hide Your Love Forever (a play on the Beatles song You´ve Got to Hide Your Love Away), the original line-up broke up, and despite a good second album, Rip It Up, which yielded the delightful, eponymously named lead single, the band never reached that dizzying heights again and they disbanded after releasing 2 other rather low-key albums. Edwyn Collins, of course, continued making music and even had an MTV hit with the single A Girl Like You, which was featured on the soundtrack of the movie Empire Record. Such is the fickle way of the world, that only now, after almost 30 years, are they seen as one of the most influental bands to have come out of the post punk movement. their pop sensibilities predates the so called indie-pop of today and they even predated The Smith´s pathos and jangly guitars by at least two years. They may not have sell a lot of records, but it´s probably like that oft quoted comment about The Velvet Underground: everyone who heard them formed their own band. Release date is November 8 in Europe and November 9 for the U.S.