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.
Product Details
4xLP
4 140g LPs 2 single LP tip-on jacket 1 2-pocket gatefold LP jacket 4 printed inner sleeves 1 11" x 11" 2-sided LP insert 1 32-page 12" x 12" book 1 download coupon 1 wrapped slipcase
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)
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.
4 140g LPs 2 single LP tip-on jacket 1 2-pocket gatefold LP jacket 4 printed inner sleeves 1 11" x 11" 2-sided LP insert 1 32-page 12" x 12" book 1 download coupon 1 wrapped slipcase
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)