Time Expired

Description

At the turn of the century and after three albums, Karate’s tenure within the insular east coast indie rock scene had expired, but the band was just getting started. Collected here is the band’s spacious, adventurous, and sometimes difficult second half presented in fastidious detail. This five LP box includes the trio’s ‘Unsolved’ (2001), ‘Some Boots’ (2002), and ‘Pockets’ (2004) albums, a first time vinyl pressing of their ‘Cancel/Sing’ EP (2002), and recently unearthed rehearsal recordings of two unreleased tracks, all annotated by Geoff Farina’s account of Karate’s adulthood and Andy Hong’s insights into the trio’s recording process

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Small Fires – Karate
2. The Lived-but-yet-named – Karate
3. Sever – Karate
4. The Roots and the Ruins – Karate
5. Number Six – Karate
6. One Less Blues – Karate
7. The Halo of the Strange – Karate
Disc 2
1. The Angels Just Have to Show – Karate
2. This Day Next Year – Karate
3. Get Reborn (Rehearsal) (Demo) – Karate
4. Old Codes (Rehearsal) (Demo) – Karate
5. The Angels Just Have to Show (Rehearsal) (Demo) – Karate
Disc 3
1. Cancel – Karate
2. Sing – Karate
Disc 4
1. Original Spies – Karate
2. First Release – Karate
3. Ice Or Ground? – Karate
4. Remain Relaxed – Karate
5. In Hundreds – Karate
6. Airport – Karate
7. Baby Teeth – Karate
8. South – Karate
Disc 5
1. With Age – Karate
2. Water – Karate
3. ‘The State I’m In’ Aka ‘Goode Buy from Cobbs Creek Park’ – Karate
4. Cacophony – Karate
5. Alingual – Karate
6. Tow Truck – Karate
7. Pines – Karate
8. Concrete – Karate