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79
Its missteps aside, Unsolved is both good and daring. It shows Geoff and company as the versatile, gifted, and skilled musicians and songwriters they are.
6y
50
With a mixture of jazz-influenced fluidity and nearby noodling, Karate's fourth album delivers dramatic stop/start rock that ebbs and flows and is sparked, at its' best moments, by lost narratives and cutting guitar work.
5y
And we have another one! And, it's the best one I've listened to so far. With Unsolved Karate leans way more into a post rock direction, and combines it with their signature Jazz-Rock/Slowcore sound and the result is an album that is longer than anything the group has ever made, yet never overstays its welcome by any means.
Unsolved has some super memorable songs, like Karate's most popular, Sever, but I think I like this one more than the others because the consistency is ... read more
If this comes across as entirely coincidental or outright unfounded, I don't have much to say, but there's always been a largely urban segmentarity reflected in the sound of Unsolved, at least to it's abilities and intrinsic affect. More so it's own musical and vocal enunciations (in the Guattarian sense) that resonate that production of formalized/rigid space segments and it's containment and other production of a certain subjectivity inside it, especially on its ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Small Fires 6:17 | 81 |
| 2 | The Lived-But-Yet-Named 4:42 | 78 |
| 3 | Sever 5:54 | 83 |
| 4 | The Roots and the Ruins 3:02 | 79 |
| 5 | Number Six 5:09 | 77 |
| 6 | One Less Blues 5:49 | 83 |
| 7 | The Halo of the Strange 3:28 | 75 |
| 8 | The Angels Just Have to Show 6:09 | 74 |
| 9 | This Day Next Year 11:14 | 78 |
Total Length: 51 minutes
