Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993’s Fake Train ripped through, they’d been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material into something built to explode. From Justin Trosper, Vern Rumsey, and Brandt Sandeno’s first restive years, “Crab Nebula” might’ve best prepared the indie-sphere for what Unwound became, had Sandeno’s split not stalled their planned debut. Part 1 in Numero’s 4-part reissue project, Kid Is Gone documents signal chaos in Olympia’s fertile scene before Unwound’s turbulent noise hit stride, in unrevealed period photos, 34 tracks, and three LPs—cassette-only demos, early 7”s, a KAOS radio broadcast, material tracked live in a local basement, and all of what became 1995’s Unwound, on which the band’s prehistory plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise.
Track List
- Unwound Bionic
- Unwound LD-50
- Unwound Lying at Best
- Unwound Stumbling Back
- Unwound Whilst You're Ahead
- Unwound Rubber Band Heart
- Unwound Crab Nebula
- Unwound Caterpillar
- Unwound Miserific Condition
- Unwound Love and Fear
- Unwound You Speak Jealousy
- Unwound Antifreeze
- Unwound Rising Blood
- Unwound Understand & Forget
- Unwound Fingertips
- Unwound You Bite My Tongue
- Unwound Stuck in the Middle of Nowhere Again
- Unwound Warmth
- Unwound Prospect
- Unwound Kid Is Gone
- Unwound Kandy Korn Rituals
- Unwound Against
- Unwound I'd Die To Know You
- Unwound Sugarfit
- Unwound Understand & Forget (KAOS)
- Unwound Miserific Condition (KAOS)
- Unwound Against (KAOS)
- Unwound Ape Skins (KAOS)
- Unwound Awkward (KAOS)
- Unwound Antifreeze (Olympia)
- Unwound Rising Blood (Olympia)
- Unwound Prospect (Olympia)
- Unwound Stuck in the Middle of Nowhere Again
- Unwound Hating In D (Olympia)