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Karate Complete Studio Recordings

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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.

TRACKLIST
  • 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
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