How has it been working through the band’s entire catalogue to put this boxset together?
It’s been an amazing privilege to be able to collate the band’s catalogue in this way. Enormous gratitude to New West for persevering on the stupidly obstacleladen path to making it happen, and for the degree of seriousness they brought to the whole thing, particularly with regard to audio quality. We had already gone through the process of reliving all the trauma between Sam Sweet’s book and the Light In The Attic release, so this project was lighter on the PTSD, despite its massive scale. That said, there was much negative energy to wrestle with in the form of revisiting shitty contracts, lost masters and the inevitable regret that things went down the way they did. On the flip side, the positivity from the label, and the love that J Spaceman and Dr Drew brought to their writing was truly, genuinely moving.