Label: Numero
Released 2015
The climactic entry in Numero Group's four-set UNWOUND exploration, “Empire” compiles the final pair of albums by the Olympia, Washington, trio. On 1998's “Challenge For A Civilized Society,” the band toyed with conventional verse/chorus form, stacking layers of noise and distraction on top of tightly constructed melodies. They'd abdicate entirely just three years later with 2001's “Leaves Turn Inside You,” executing a 14-song masterclass in home recording that observed a crucial band in graceful transition from post-hardcore trio to experimental quintet.
Track Listing:
- Data
- Laugh Track
- Meet the Plastics
- The World Is Flat
- Sonata for Loudspeakers
- No Tech!
- Side Effects of Being Tired
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- What Went Wrong
- We Invent You
- Look a Ghost
- December
- Treachery
- Terminus
- Demons Sing Love Songs
- Off This Century
- One Lick Less
- Scarlette
- October All Over
- Summer Freeze
- Radio Gra
- Below the Salt
- Who Cares
- Mile Me Deaf
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel Is a Train
- Solo Sonata
- XLNT
- Laszlo
- Torch Song
- Meet the Plastics
- The World Is Flat
- Empire