At the turn of the century and after three albums, Karate’s tenure within the insular east coast indie rock scene had expired, but the band was just getting started. Collected here is the band’s spacious, adventurous, and sometimes difficult second half presented in fastidious detail. This five LP box includes the trio’s Unsolved, Some Boots, and Pockets albums, a first time vinyl pressing of their Cancel/Sing EP, and recently unearthed rehearsal recordings of two unreleased tracks, all annotated by Geoff Farina’s account of Karate’s adulthood and Andy Hong’s insights into the trio’s recording process
Tracklisting
A: Unsolved
1 Small Fires
2 The Lived-But-Yet-Named
3 SeverB: Unsolved
4 The Roots And The Ruins
5 Number Six
6 One Less Blues
7 The Halo Of The StrangeC: Unsolved
8 The Angels Just Have To Show
9 This Day Next YearD: Unsolved
10 Get Reborn (Rehearsal)
11Old Code (Rehearsal)
12 The Angels Just Have to Show (Rehearsal)E: Cancel/Sing
13 CancelF: Cancel/Sing
14 SingG: Some Boots
15 Original Spies
16 First Release
17 Ice Or Ground?
18 Remain RelaxedH: Some Boots
19 In Hundreds
20 Airport
21 Baby Teeth
22 SouthI: Pockets
23 With Age
24 Water
25 “The State I’m In” Aka “Goode Buy From Cobbs Creek Park”
26 CacophonyJ: Pockets
27 Alingual
28 Tow Truck
29 Pines
30 Concrete
Indies exclusive - pine green vinyl variant
Expected 25th November 2022
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Release Date
25/11/2022
Record Label
Numero Group