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.

1 CD1: Gasoline
2 If You Can Hold Your Breath
3 Trophy
4 What Is Sleep
5 Bad Tattoo
6 Every Sister
7 Bodies
8 Caffeine or Me?
9 Death Kit
10 Nerve
11 The Schwinn
12 Cherry Coke CD2: This, Plus Slow Song
13 New Martini
14 Wake Up, Decide
15 It's 98 Stop
16 New New
17 The New Hangout Condition
18 On Cutting
19 Die Die
20 Today or Tomorrow
21 Operation: Sand
22 Empty There CD3: There Are Ghosts
23 The Same Stars
24 Diazapam
25 The Last Wars
26 Bass Sounds
27 Up Nights
28 Fatal Strategies
29 Outside Is the Drama
30 Not to Call the Police CD4: Small Fires
31 The Lived-But-Yet-Named
32 Sever
33 The Roots and the Ruins
34 Number Six
35 One Less Blues
36 The Halo of the Strange
37 The Angels Just Have to Show
38 This Day Next Year CD5: Cancel
39 Sing CD6: Original Spies
40 First Release
41 Ice or Ground?
42 South
43 In Hundreds
44 Airport
45 Baby Teeth
46 Corduroy
47 Remain Relaxed CD7: With Age
48 Water
49 The State I'm In" Aka "Goode Buy from Cobbs Creek Park
50 Cacophony
51 Alingual
52 Tow Truck
53 Pines
54 Concrete CD8: Strange Fruit
55 The Only Minority
56 Tears of Rage
57 Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
58 Need a Job
59 This Ain't No Picnic
60 Colors
61 A New Jerusalem
62 A New Jerusalem