Washington state post-hardcore outfit Unwound have been remembered with string of box set reissues from the Numero Group, and now the fourth and final collection in the campaign has been unveiled. This latest set is called Empire, and it brings together the band’s final releases before their breakup in 2002. It contains 1998’s Challenge for a Civilized Society, 2001’s swan song Leaves Turn Inside You, plus a collection of singles, outtakes and rarities.
On 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 Leaves Turn Inside You, executing a 14-song masterclass in home…
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…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 exhilirating fans in successive breaths before it fell far out of print. At their reinvention and terminus, Unwound ultimately asked “Who Cares”?
Disc 1 – Challenge for a Civilized Society:
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 & 3 – Leaves Turn Inside You:
1. We Invent You
2. Look a Ghost
3. December in Thai
4. Treachery
5. Terminus
6. Demons Sing Love Songs
7. Off This Century
8. One Lick Less
9. Scarlett
10. October All Over
11. Summer Freeze
12. Radio GRA
13. Below the Salt
14. Who Cares
Disc 4 – Empire:
1. Mile Me Deaf
2. The Light at the End of the Tunnel Is a Train
3. Solo Sonata
4. XNLT
5. Laszlo
6. Torch Song
7. Meet the Plastics (Demo)
8. The World Is Flat (Demo)
9. Empire (Demo)