As a robust rock underground got swallowed alive by the Major Label Industrial Complex, the very autonomous Unwound—Olympia, Washington’s Great Noise Hope—toed the troublesome line between pay check and Check Engine light. Captured in the gaps of a ruthless touring schedule, defining fourth and fifth albums The Future of What and Repetition were issued in the back-to-back springs of 1995 and ’96. Both find the band severing their post-hardcore roots, for gripping detours into Echoplex, kraut, D&B, and Mingus, as guided by a sun-worn copy of Book Your Own Fuckin’ Life.
No Energy collects both of these 1990s masterworks, beginning with Justin Trosper’s home-made haircut stabs on “New Energy,” continuing with Vern Rumsey’s reanimating bass on “Corpse Pose,” and closing in a wall of Sara Lund crash cymbals on “For Your Entertainment.” This 33-song collection is buttressed by singles and period live tracks, a pile of double-exposed photographs, and a 10,000 word essay by latter-day Unwound diarist David Wilcox.
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3xLP
3 150g LPs
3 single LP tip-on jackets
3 printed Euro sleeves
3 double-sided inserts
1 24-page 12.5
Track List
- Unwound New Energy
- Unwound Demolished
- Unwound Natural Disasters
- Unwound Re-Enact the Crime
- Unwound Equally Stupid
- Unwound Pardon My French
- Unwound Descension
- Unwound Accidents on Purpose
- Unwound Petals Like Bricks
- Unwound Vern’s Answer to the Masses
- Unwound Here Come The Dogs
- Unwound Disappoint
- Unwound Swan
- Unwound Message Received
- Unwound Corpse Pose
- Unwound Unauthorized Autobiography
- Unwound Lowest Common Denominator
- Unwound Sensible
- Unwound Lady Elect
- Unwound Fingernails on a Chalkboard
- Unwound Murder Movies
- Unwound Next Exit
- Unwound Devoid
- Unwound Go to Dallas and Take a Left
- Unwound For Your Entertainment
- Unwound Corpse Pose (Single version)
- Unwound Everything is Weird
- Unwound Seen Not Heard
- Unwound Next Exit
- Unwound MKULTRA
- Unwound Usual Dosage
- Unwound Swan