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Karate

Complete Studio Recordings

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

  1. DISC 1 Self Titled + Death Kit Single, The Schwinn & Cherry Coke
  2. Karate Gasoline
  3. Karate If You Can Hold Your Breath
  4. Karate Trophy
  5. Karate What Is Sleep?
  6. Karate - - -
  7. Karate Bad Tattoo
  8. Karate Every Sister
  9. Karate Bodies
  10. Karate Caffeine Or Me?
  11. Karate Death Kit
  12. Karate Nerve
  13. Karate The Schwinn
  14. Karate Cherry Coke
  15. DISC 2 In Place Of Real Insight + Operation: Sand/Empty There Single
  16. Karate This, Plus Slow Song
  17. Karate New Martini
  18. Karate Wake Up, Decide
  19. Karate It's 98 Stop
  20. Karate New New
  21. Karate The New Hangout Condition
  22. Karate On Cutting
  23. Karate Die Die
  24. Karate Today Or Tomorrow
  25. Karate Operation: Sand
  26. Karate Empty There
  27. DISC 3 The Bed Is In The Ocean
  28. Karate There Are Ghosts
  29. Karate The Same Stars
  30. Karate Diazapam
  31. Karate The Last Wars
  32. Karate Bass Sounds
  33. Karate Up Nights
  34. Karate Fatal Strategies
  35. Karate Outside Is The Drama
  36. Karate Not To Call The Police
  37. DISC 4 Unsolved
  38. Karate Small Fires
  39. Karate The Lived-But-Yet-Named
  40. Karate Sever
  41. Karate The Roots And The Ruins
  42. Karate Number Six
  43. Karate One Less Blues
  44. Karate The Halo Of The Strange
  45. Karate The Angels Just Have To Show
  46. Karate This Day Next Year
  47. DISC 5 Cancel/Sing
  48. Karate Cancel
  49. Karate Sing
  50. DISC 6 Some Boots
  51. Karate Original Spies
  52. Karate First Release
  53. Karate Ice Or Ground
  54. Karate South
  55. Karate In Hundreds
  56. Karate Airport
  57. Karate Baby Teeth
  58. Karate Corduroy
  59. Karate Remain Relaxed
  60. DISC 7 Pockets
  61. Karate With Age
  62. Karate Water
  63. Karate “The State I'm In
  64. Karate Cacophony
  65. Karate Alingual
  66. Karate Tow Truck
  67. Karate Pines
  68. Karate Concrete
  69. DISC 8 In The Fishtank 12
  70. Karate Strange Fruit
  71. Karate The Only Minority
  72. Karate Tears Of Rage
  73. Karate Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
  74. Karate Need A Job
  75. Karate This Ain't No Picnic
  76. Karate Colors
  77. Karate A New Jerusalem