Label: Numero

Reissued 9/15/2023

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 listing:

Self Titled + Death Kit Single, The Schwinn & Cherry Coke

1. 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

In Place Of Real Insight + Operation: Sand/Empty There Single

1. This, Plus Slow Song
2. New Martini
3. Wake Up, Decide
4. It's 98 Stop
5. New New
6. The New Hangout Condition
7. On Cutting
8. Die Die
9. Today or Tomorrow
10. Operation: Sand
11. Empty There

The Bed Is In The Ocean

1. There Are Ghosts
2. The Same Stars
3. Diazapam
4. The Last Wars
5. Bass Sounds
6. Up Nights
7. Fatal Strategies
8. Outside Is the Drama
9. Not to Call the Police

Unsolved

1. Small Fires
2. The Lived-But-Yet-Named
3. Sever
4. The Roots and the Ruins
5. Number Six
6. One Less Blues
7. The Halo of the Strange
8. The Angels Just Have to Show
9. This Day Next Year

Cancel/Sing

1. Cancel
2. Sing

Some Boots

1. Original Spies
2. First Release
3. Ice or Ground?
4. South
5. In Hundreds
6. Airport
7. Baby Teeth
8. Corduroy
9. Remain Relaxed

Pockets

1. With Age
2. Water
3. The State I'm In" Aka "Goode Buy from Cobbs Creek Park
4. Cacophony
5. Alingual
6. Tow Truck
7. Pines
8. Concrete

In The Fishtank 12

1. Strange Fruit
2. The Only Minority
3. Tears of Rage
4. Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
5. Need a Job
6. This Ain't No Picnic
7. Colors
8. A New Jerusalem