Label: Numero
Reissued 9/15/2023
Crashing at the unlikely intersection of post-hardcore, slowcore, and jazz-rock, Karate spent a dozen years producing peerless recordings in their adopted hometown of Boston. Collected here are their six albums-S/T, In Place of Real Insight, The Bed Is In The Ocean, Unsolved, Some Boots, Pockets, plus the Cancel/Sing and In The Fish Tank EPs, singles, and split 7"s, a whopping 69 tracks spread across eight glorious compact discs. Leor Galil's career-spanning essay is illustrated with dozens of period-appropriate photos in the accompanying 80-page book.
Track listing:
Self Titled + Death Kit Single, The Schwinn & Cherry Coke
- Gasoline
- If You Can Hold Your Breath
- Trophy
- What Is Sleep
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- Bad Tattoo
- Every Sister
- Bodies
- Caffeine or Me?
- Death Kit
- Nerve
- The Schwinn
- Cherry Coke
In Place Of Real Insight + Operation: Sand/Empty There Single
- This, Plus Slow Song
- New Martini
- Wake Up, Decide
- It's 98 Stop
- New New
- The New Hangout Condition
- On Cutting
- Die Die
- Today or Tomorrow
- Operation: Sand
- Empty There
The Bed Is In The Ocean
- There Are Ghosts
- The Same Stars
- Diazapam
- The Last Wars
- Bass Sounds
- Up Nights
- Fatal Strategies
- Outside Is the Drama
- Not to Call the Police
Unsolved
- Small Fires
- The Lived-But-Yet-Named
- Sever
- The Roots and the Ruins
- Number Six
- One Less Blues
- The Halo of the Strange
- The Angels Just Have to Show
- This Day Next Year
Cancel/Sing
- Cancel
- Sing
Some Boots
- Original Spies
- First Release
- Ice or Ground?
- South
- In Hundreds
- Airport
- Baby Teeth
- Corduroy
- Remain Relaxed
Pockets
- With Age
- Water
- The State I'm In" Aka "Goode Buy from Cobbs Creek Park
- Cacophony
- Alingual
- Tow Truck
- Pines
- Concrete
In The Fishtank 12
- Strange Fruit
- The Only Minority
- Tears of Rage
- Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
- Need a Job
- This Ain't No Picnic
- Colors
- A New Jerusalem