by
John Maus
- Record Label: Ribbon Music
- Release Date: Jul 17, 2012
A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material
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Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings
- Summary: As the title suggests, the collection includes unreleased and rare songs created between 1999 and 2010 from the avant-garde electronic artist.
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- Record Label: Ribbon Music
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Jul 20, 2012This remastered Collection of Rarities is intriguing beyond its archival purposes, as it traces the evolution of an artist over the course of 11 years.
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MagnetAug 23, 2012[The album is] really fun. You don't have to know about 12-tone serialism to appreciate the wonderfully goody innards of this appropriately titled compilation. [No.90, p.59]
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Aug 24, 2012Rarities are all the pieces that didn't fit. And furthermore, they're mostly fantastic.
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Jul 16, 2012Perhaps there's not enough variation on the album as a whole, with only the odd anomaly which then sounds rather out of place, but even the anomalies are very distinctly John Maus and at times that may be a grim, cold, dark, slightly pretentious thing, but it is no bad thing.
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Under The RadarAug 22, 2012The 16 cut offering--if not out and out innovation--then at least a reminder that his deconstructionist approach is more than clever for clever's sake. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.123]
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Jul 20, 2012It probably won't rope in many. But for those few who do get it, A Collection Of Rarities will provide a truly uncommon and sometimes jarring glimpse into the evolution of an incredible musical mind.
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The WireDec 5, 2012A mixed bag. [Oct 2012, p.62]
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