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 careerspanning essay is illustrated with dozens of period-appropriate photos in the accompanying 80-page book.