Formed in Scotland in 1979, apb were a post-punk trio blending edgy guitars with funk and new wave sounds. The band had many early ’80s alternative radio and rock dance club hits including Shoot You Down and Rainy Day.

Those tracks along with others were originally released on the collection Something to Believe In in 1985, but due to the latest Record Store Day 2022, there will be a new, and expanded edition of the album (November 18th, 2022, via Liberation Hall Records), which includes five bonus tracks with rare pictures in the liner notes.

1. Shoot You Down
2. Talk To Me
3. Palace Filled With Love
4. Rainy Day
5. One Day
6. Summer Love
7. Something To Believe In
8. So Many Broken Hearts
9. What Kind Of Girl?
10. Danceability, Pt. 1 & 2
11. Chain Reaction
12. Power Crisis
13. All Your Life With Me
14. From You & Back To You
15. Help Yourself
16. Is The Music Loud Enough?

Before they had even completed their debut LP, Scotland’s apb first issued a singles compilation, 1985’s Something to Believe In. Straying into the territory of jerky indie structures popularized by bands like Wire, apb would emphasize their peculiarities underneath a pop template, fashioning short, tight guitar riffs in the middle of songs.

On this remastered and expanded edition of that very same album, the band’s sub-funk Scottish rock continues onward, and perhaps now bleeds out to a whole new generation of listener, as it opens on the rhythmical Shoot You Down and the melodic pop-rock of Talk To Me and then follow those up with the gently frenetic, slap bass-imbued Palace Filled With Love, the ’80s-embued Rainy Day, the funky guitar work of One Day, and then brings us the the Bluebells-esque 100-esque Summer Love, the free flowing Something To Believe In and the Haircut 100-esque So Many Broken Hearts.

Up next is the upbeat and joyous, Spandau Ballet-esque What Kind Of Girl? which is in turn backed by the deeply-veined ’80s smooth funk of the aptly-named Danceability, Pt. 1 & 2 and then the tone goes alt-punk for Chain Reaction, then along comes the drum-led rocker Power Crisis, the HI-NRG slap bass and cowbell appeal of All Your Life With Me, the fervent pop-rock From You & Back To You, the newly produced album rounding out on the fine pop sounds within Help Yourself and the hand clapper, foot tapper Is The Music Loud Enough?

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