Catch Trashcan Sinatras at Knuckleheads on Sunday night

Trashcan Sinatras can lay claim to the pretty, jangling Scottish pop of the early ’80s, a sound forged by Orange Juice and Aztec Camera. Frank Reader’s doleful voice earned the group deserved comparisons with the Smiths after its successful 1990 debut, Cake. By 1996’s third album, A Happy Pocket, the industry had moved on, and the album wasn’t even released in America. Dropped from its label, Trashcan Sinatras lost its home studio to bankruptcy. The band’s fourth album, Weightlifting, wouldn’t arrive for eight years. (An earlier version was scrapped as too dark.)