The Jean Paul Sartre Experience (1987) Love Songs Framed Album Cover Art

Love Songs is an album by the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience (JPSE) that was released in 1987 by Flying Nun Records. The album is known for its dreamy, psychedelic, and melodic songs

What a party! The 1985 Flying Nun Christmas party in an upstairs “loft” up an alley just off Oxford Terrace where the “strip” can now be found. The Christmas tree was suspended up side down from the ceiling and conveniently fell on a troublesome participant later in the evening, the bath tub was full of drinks, The Terminals played a stomping set, the Dunedin contingent arrived late and so drunk that some could not get out of their cars.

ROGER SHEPARD "And what a band! The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience gate crashed our party, played an accomplished and astonishing set of startlingly individualistic material and got them selves signed to Flying Nun Records as a consequence. I was so impressed that I fell into the Avon River at the end of the evening.

So rock and roll but in many ways the perfect start to a career in music that was to develop and evolve over the eight preceding years. Musically assured and in procession of an unusual strength in that there were three songwriters and none of the songs were like anything anyone had ever heard before.

A stand out self-titled EP was released in 1986 and marked the band as worth watching with the moody idiosyncratic pop masterpieces followed by the intelligent and melodious Love Songs album in 1987. These are slow dreamy psychedelic songs that are strong with happy dynamism and intent that stand out individually as unique and fully formed. Check out the songs and the videos that accompany them for “Flex” and “I Like Rain” and you’ll get the idea. No other band like them on the planet."