Unsolved (2023 Reissue)

As Warped Tour pop-punk and American Apparel indie rock dominated the strange post-Y2K guitar-band milieu, Boston’s Karate delivered an engrossing shot of rock that constantly shifted between several shades of subterranean sounds. The quiet moments on  Karate’s millennium busting fourth album carry much of that old, unbridled  intensity,braided into subdued jazz melodies and slowcore restraint. Karate’s transition into rock maturity bore supple fruit with Unsolved, presented here with three previously unreleased songs.

Tracklist

SIDE A
1. Small Fired
2. the Lived-Yet-Named
3. Sever

SIDE B
4. the Roots and the Ruins
5. Number Six
6. One Less Blues
7. the Halo of the Strange

SIDE C
8. the Angels Just Have to Show
9. This Day Next Year

SIDE D
10. Get Reborn (Rehearsal)
11. Old Codes (Rehearsal)
12. the Angels Just Have to Show (Rehearsal)