Karate Complete Studio Recordings CD

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.

1. CD1: Gasoline 2. If You Can Hold Your Breath 3. Trophy 4. What Is Sleep 5. - - - 6. Bad Tattoo 7. Every Sister 8. Bodies 9. Caffeine or Me? 10. Death Kit 11. Nerve 12. The Schwinn 13. Cherry Coke CD2: This, Plus Slow Song 14. New Martini 15. Wake Up, Decide 16. It's 98 Stop 17. New New 18. The New Hangout Condition 19. On Cutting 20. Die Die 21. Today or Tomorrow 22. Operation: Sand 23. Empty There CD3: There Are Ghosts 24. The Same Stars 25. Diazapam 26. The Last Wars 27. Bass Sounds 28. Up Nights 29. Fatal Strategies 30. Outside Is the Drama 31. Not to Call the Police CD4: Small Fires 32. The Lived-But-Yet-Named 33. Sever 34. The Roots and the Ruins 35. Number Six 36. One Less Blues 37. The Halo of the Strange 38. The Angels Just Have to Show 39. This Day Next Year CD5: Cancel 40. Sing CD6: Original Spies 41. First Release 42. Ice or Ground? 43. South 44. In Hundreds 45. Airport 46. Baby Teeth 47. Corduroy 48. Remain Relaxed CD7: With Age 49. Water 50. The State I'm In" Aka "Goode Buy from Cobbs Creek Park 51. Cacophony 52. Alingual 53. Tow Truck 54. Pines 55. Concrete CD8: Strange Fruit 56. The Only Minority 57. Tears of Rage 58. Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs 59. Need a Job 60. This Ain't No Picnic 61. Colors 62. A New Jerusalem