There's a reason why I haven't written about this one by now. It's because it's a very English indie curation by Mojo, full of bands whose legacies generally haven't been discovered by our American cousins 40 years on. I have very little cultural context or listening history with the 15 bands appearing herein. I've been digging into Orange Juice recently; a result of The New Vinyl Villain's ongoing Edwyn Collins 45 series. Sad to say, it hasn't clicked yet. I know Microdisney from Rough Trade, Scritti Politti from "The Sweetest Girl", and Marine Girls from Tracey Thorn, whose voice I still rate alongside Beth Gibbons for my favorite British chanteuse.
Otherwise, it's all Greek to me. I can only imagine what it'd look like if the shoe were on the other foot, and I compiled a bunch of Baltimore punk/HC/indie bands from the aughts and teens for the average Mojo reader. They'd probably find something great in Entrance or Celebration or Double Dagger, but the finer points of a Charm City Suicides, a Tarpit, or an Oranges Band would no doubt be lost in translation. "You had to be there," rings in my ears.
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