Orange Juice (3) – You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

The sound of young Scotland. Essential 80s indie . When people had proper hair, distinctive styles and soul ✊🏻❤️

Anyone got this with black and white labels with simple 1 for the a-side 2 for the b-side? I presume it's a promo.
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped - variant 1): POLS 1057 A // 2 ▽ 420 S 1 1 2 STRAWBERRY
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped / etched - variant 3): POLS 1057 B // 2 ▽ 420 S 1 1 2 STRAWBERRY. END OF PART ONE

This pressing sounds great! Very happy. It arrived in packaging with Edwyn Collins' name on it!

Looks like it's now available to order on http://www.aedrecords.com/ !

supposedly this was released last year but I can find no mention of it anywhere and no sales on this website, amazon or eBay?

Orange Juice was a band from Scotland and was the leading light on the independent Scottish label Postcard. First of all, no other group was cuter than Orange Juice. The four young men were all pin-up material, and Edwyn Collins their 'perhaps' leader was striking in his pouty sensual lips and hair over one eye. Their music was guitar driven but layered and extremely textural. It hints of the band Television, but to me, I hear two other groups influences on their first album "You Can't Hide Your Love Forever." They are The Velvet Underground, and the other is The Feelies.

To be specific The Velvets intimate third album, due to the intimacy of their sound, but also the beautiful guitar playing by Sterling Morrison and Lou Reed. There is the conversational quality of Reed's lyrics that are very much part of Collins' writing as well. Lou is direct, and Edwyn has a touch of Noel Coward commenting on a relationship in disaster or changed by circumstances. With respect to The Feelies, and I'm specifically talking about their first album, I hear the interplay of the guitars that build up and then there's a melodic part that opens up the music in a fashion that is beautiful and feminine. Which is an odd thing to say about a guitar band of all young guys, but there is a strong sense of not power, but the surge of melodies that come through like a sun breaking through the clouds.

Does anyone else find that the loudness varies a bit? I have the OG copy. No audio distortion or clicks etc, but the volume is definitely odd

Anyone seen a vinyl version that seems awful boot-like with bar code 7 31453 99802 5?

Does anyone know if the 2014 Japanese remaster is a paper sleeve replica mini-lp?

Mine's exactly this one, but says 1998, the year of the UK remasters.