The climactic entry in our 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. The mammoth double album was lost in the chaos of a post-9/11 media, baffling onlookers and exhilarating fans in successive breaths before it fell far out of print. At their reinvention and terminus, Unwound ultimately asked “Who Cares”? The Empire box-set teems with period singles, B-sides, unreleased studio tracks, and demos, alongside a 15,000-word essay exploring the terminal stages of the ’90s, indie rock, Unwound, and civilization as we know it.
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4xLP
4 140g LPs
2 single LP tip-on jacket
1 2-pocket gatefold LP jacket
4 printed inner sleeves
1 11
Track List
- Unwound Data
- Unwound Laugh Track
- Unwound Meet The Plastics
- Unwound The World Is Flat
- Unwound Sonata For Loudspeakers
- Unwound NO TECH!
- Unwound Side Effects Of Being Tired
- Unwound Lifetime Achievement Award
- Unwound What Went Wrong
- Unwound We Invent You
- Unwound Look A Ghost
- Unwound December
- Unwound Treachery
- Unwound Terminus
- Unwound Demons Sing Love Songs
- Unwound Off This Century
- Unwound One Lick Less
- Unwound Scarlette
- Unwound October All Over
- Unwound Summer Freeze
- Unwound Radio Gra
- Unwound Below The Salt
- Unwound Who Cares
- Unwound Mile Me Deaf
- Unwound The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train
- Unwound Solo Sonata
- Unwound XLNT (Untitled)
- Unwound Laszlo
- Unwound Torch Song
- Unwound Meet The Plastics (Demo)
- Unwound The World Is Flat (Demo)
- Unwound Empire (Demo)