Unwound - Empire '2015

Tracks list

The climactic entry in our four-set Unwound exploration, Empire compiles 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. Theyd 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.



Tracklisting:
1.01. Unwound - Data
1.02. Unwound - Laugh Track
1.03. Unwound - Meet the Plastics
1.04. Unwound - The World Is Flat
1.05. Unwound - Sonata for Loudspeakers
1.06. Unwound - NO TECH!
1.07. Unwound - Side Effects Of Being Tired
1.08. Unwound - Lifetime Achievement Award
1.09. Unwound - What Went Wrong
2.01. Unwound - We Invent You
2.02. Unwound - Look a Ghost
2.03. Unwound - December
2.04. Unwound - Treachery
2.05. Unwound - Terminus
2.06. Unwound - Demons Sing Love Songs
2.07. Unwound - Off This Century
3.01. Unwound - One Lick Less
3.02. Unwound - Scarlette
3.03. Unwound - October All Over
3.04. Unwound - Summer Freeze
3.05. Unwound - Radio Gra
3.06. Unwound - Below the Salt
3.07. Unwound - Who Cares
4.01. Unwound - Mile Me Deaf
4.02. Unwound - The Light At the End of the Tunnel Is a Train
4.03. Unwound - Solo Sonata
4.04. Unwound - XLNT (Untitled)
4.05. Unwound - Laszlo
4.06. Unwound - Torch Song
4.07. Unwound - Meet the Plastics (Demo)
4.08. Unwound - The World Is Flat (Demo)
4.09. Unwound - Empire (Demo)

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