The Jazzateers

In the early '80s, you couldn't do much better if you were a Scottish indie pop band than to be signed to Postcard Records. Although Orange Juice and Josef K had already moved on, it was still the hippest label around and the Jazzateers must have felt lucky to be affiliated with the imprint in 1981. The quartet of vocalist Alison Gourlay, guitarist Ian Burgoyne, bassist Keith Band, and drummer Colin Auld played a style of pop lodged firmly between the jangle of Orange Juice and the sophisticated swing of bossa nova, and fit in well with the other new Postcard signing, Aztec Ca...