Title: Hear Green before he went from punk to pop, for completists
Product review: Scritti Politti are one of my all-time favorite bands, so it's very nice that Rough Trade saw fit to finally releases these early vinyl-only EPs on CD for clarity & posterity, seeing as the old 12"s used to go for mucho dollar on ebay. Honestly, I am not sure how much you can really "listen" to these early art-rock-political experiments, but they're nice to have to complete your collection - toward the end, you can clearly hear Gang of Four/Wire-type noise gradually giving way to more studied, technically-precise professionalism, and later even "pop" as it were, i.e. the early take of Sweetest Girl, where Green finally found his "voice" - I prefer later Arif Mardin/Chic-inspired CDs like Cupid & Pysche 85 or Provision, but you can't go wrong here. A lot of bang for the buck. I just hope Green Gartside returns with a NEW Scritti full length before the decade is over?
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