With Orange Range's tendency to hop around genres like a mad bunny, it's pretty amazing that the two-CD collection of B-sides is their best work.

But it's true: while their regular albums feature a handful of really great tracks immersed in a sea of filler and intolerable experiments, Ura Shopping is consistently good.

It's not an entirely annoyance-free zone: "Hai! Moshi Moshi...Natsu Desu!," for one, sounds as if it was sung by Sailor Moon gone off the rails, but for the most part, Orange Range manage to turn their problems into strengths.

The main selling point of the band always was their ability to expand the typical melodic alt-metal sound similar to Uverworld and High & Mighty Color using an endless bag of tricks that range from hip-hop to ambient, nu metal and Primus-like noodling, as well as approximately a zillion kinds of solo and chorus vocals.

All of that is intact on Ura Shopping, but comes complemented with a crucial detail: a care for melody.

On their albums, the band used to constantly get carried away overstuffing the songs with bass breaks, piles of clashing riffs, and comedic vocal gimmicks, making the tunes hardly listenable.

On the B-sides, Orange Range obviously don't feel compelled to force the goofiness, and that's just what they should do.

The wealth of influences on Ura Shopping would still suffice to fill the catalog of a mid-sized record label: there's reggae, techno, light jazz, psychedelic rock, and much more, but all of it is seen through the prism of Orange Range's alternative ethos, with forceful drums, rapping/chanting like an angst-free Jonathan Davis, and a rock groove that's never lost throughout the whole two hours of its duration.

Ura Shopping is a lot of a good thing, but certainly not too much of it.