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Unwound - Empire (Box Set) - Good Records To Go

Unwound - Empire (Box Set)

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The climactic entry in our four-set Unwound exploration, Empirecompiles the final pair of albums by the Olympia, Washington, trio. On 1998’s Challenge For A Civilized Society, the band toyed with conventional verse/chorus form, stacking layers of noise and distraction on top of tightly constructed melodies. They'd abdicate entirely just three years later with 2001’s Leaves Turn Inside You, executing a 14-song masterclass in home recording that observed a crucial band in graceful transition from post-hardcore trio to experimental quintet. The mammoth double album was lost in the chaos of a post-9/11 media, baffling onlookers and exhilarating fans in successive breaths before it fell far out of print. At their reinvention and terminus, Unwound ultimately asked “Who Cares”? The Empire box-set teems with period singles, B-sides, unreleased studio tracks, and demos, alongside a 15,000-word essay exploring the terminal stages of the ’90s, indie rock, Unwound, and civilization as we know it.
  • - Disc 1 -
  • 1 Data
  • 2 Laugh Track
  • 3 Meet the Plastics
  • 4 The World Is Flat
  • 5 Sonata for Loudspeakers
  • 6 No Tech!
  • 7 Side Effects of Being Tired
  • 8 Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 9 What Went Wrong

  • - Disc 2 -
  • 1 We Invent You
  • 2 Look a Ghost
  • 3 December
  • 4 Treachery
  • 5 Terminus
  • 6 Demons Sing Love Songs
  • 7 Off This Century

  • - Disc 3 -
  • 1 One Lick Less
  • 2 Scarlette
  • 3 October All Over
  • 4 Summer Freeze
  • 5 Radio Gra
  • 6 Below the Salt
  • 7 Who Cares

  • - Disc 4 -
  • 1 Mile Me Deaf
  • 2 The Light at the End of the Tunnel Is a Train
  • 3 Solo Sonata
  • 4 XLNT
  • 5 Laszlo
  • 6 Torch Song
  • 7 Meet the Plastics
  • 8 The World Is Flat
  • 9 Empire