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 List
- DISC 1 Self Titled + Death Kit Single, The Schwinn & Cherry Coke
- Karate Gasoline
- Karate If You Can Hold Your Breath
- Karate Trophy
- Karate What Is Sleep?
- Karate - - -
- Karate Bad Tattoo
- Karate Every Sister
- Karate Bodies
- Karate Caffeine Or Me?
- Karate Death Kit
- Karate Nerve
- Karate The Schwinn
- Karate Cherry Coke
- DISC 2 In Place Of Real Insight + Operation: Sand/Empty There Single
- Karate This, Plus Slow Song
- Karate New Martini
- Karate Wake Up, Decide
- Karate It's 98 Stop
- Karate New New
- Karate The New Hangout Condition
- Karate On Cutting
- Karate Die Die
- Karate Today Or Tomorrow
- Karate Operation: Sand
- Karate Empty There
- DISC 3 The Bed Is In The Ocean
- Karate There Are Ghosts
- Karate The Same Stars
- Karate Diazapam
- Karate The Last Wars
- Karate Bass Sounds
- Karate Up Nights
- Karate Fatal Strategies
- Karate Outside Is The Drama
- Karate Not To Call The Police
- DISC 4 Unsolved
- Karate Small Fires
- Karate The Lived-But-Yet-Named
- Karate Sever
- Karate The Roots And The Ruins
- Karate Number Six
- Karate One Less Blues
- Karate The Halo Of The Strange
- Karate The Angels Just Have To Show
- Karate This Day Next Year
- DISC 5 Cancel/Sing
- Karate Cancel
- Karate Sing
- DISC 6 Some Boots
- Karate Original Spies
- Karate First Release
- Karate Ice Or Ground
- Karate South
- Karate In Hundreds
- Karate Airport
- Karate Baby Teeth
- Karate Corduroy
- Karate Remain Relaxed
- DISC 7 Pockets
- Karate With Age
- Karate Water
- Karate “The State I'm In
- Karate Cacophony
- Karate Alingual
- Karate Tow Truck
- Karate Pines
- Karate Concrete
- DISC 8 In The Fishtank 12
- Karate Strange Fruit
- Karate The Only Minority
- Karate Tears Of Rage
- Karate Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
- Karate Need A Job
- Karate This Ain't No Picnic
- Karate Colors
- Karate A New Jerusalem
