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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Release Date: Aug 7, 2015
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- Summary: The three-disc box set for the New Zealand indie pop quartet features all of its three full-length albums, as well as EPs, demos, and b-sides.
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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, New Zealand Rock
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Aug 28, 2015Taken all together, the set is a fascinating document of a band you see change from the kind of band who'd release a cassette in weird packaging to a band making a grab for the brass ring of success. Along the way, there were considerably more hits than misses, though, and any fan of Flying Nun will find much to love here.
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Aug 28, 2015Whilst The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience canon is far from consistent and most of us might not regularly play much beyond the sublime first CD/LP of this compendium, there is much to be (re)discovered here that vintage Flying Nun label fans can certainly not afford to live without. A heartily-fulfilling curate’s egg, in short.
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Aug 28, 2015Though recorded cheaply, The JPSE’s early material remains especially sublime.
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MojoAug 28, 2015Doomed to the shadows of Flying Nun's more famed exponents, this box set should finally rehabilitate the band. [Sep 2015, p.103]
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Aug 28, 2015The real pleasure is the instigation to sit through and hear JPSE go through the good, the bad and the near misses of a career that took the band from a light-hearted party outfit with an ingratiating delicate side in Christchurch, New Zealand, to game, but stressed-out grunts trying to flog big, catchy hooks that should have caught on with the Yo La Tengo and My Bloody Valentine crowds (yet never did). [No. 122, p.56]
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Aug 28, 2015The I Like Rain anthology amplifies what a shame it all was that they didn’t really get the chance to build an American or British audience.