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 - - - 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
