Empire

by Unwound

Empire cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 4 September 2015
  • Label: Numero Group
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:38:48
  • Community rating: 4.57/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Derek M. Johnson, Steve Fisk, Vern Rumsey, Dave Carter, Brandt Sandeno, Janet Weiss, Justin Trosper

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Concluding the exhaustive archiving of their discography, this box set focuses on the band's profoundly ambitious final era, featuring the swan-song masterpiece 'Leaves Turn Inside You'. The collection documents their complete departure from aggressive noise-punk into sprawling, gothic post-rock orchestration utilizing synthesizers, mellotrons, and expanded instrumentation. It functions as the breathtaking, melancholic final chapter of one of independent music's most flawless catalogs.

Genres

Descriptors: alienation, noisy, dissonant, lo-fi, uncompromising

Tracklist

  1. Data (3:31)
  2. Laugh Track (3:13)
  3. Meet the Plastics (3:12)
  4. The World Is Flat (4:34)
  5. Sonata for Loudspeakers (5:20)
  6. NO TECH! (1:42)
  7. Side Effects Of Being Tired (9:01)
  8. Lifetime Achievement Award (5:10)
  9. What Went Wrong (8:37)
  10. We Invent You (5:52)
  11. Look a Ghost (3:04)
  12. December (4:03)
  13. Treachery (4:17)
  14. Terminus (9:40)
  15. Demons Sing Love Songs (4:03)
  16. Off This Century (5:32)
  17. One Lick Less (5:24)
  18. Scarlette (4:45)
  19. October All Over (5:00)
  20. Summer Freeze (5:36)
  21. Radio Gra (5:57)
  22. Below the Salt (10:40)
  23. Who Cares (2:44)
  24. Mile Me Deaf (2:23)
  25. The Light At the End of the Tunnel Is a Train (10:10)
  26. Solo Sonata (3:02)
  27. XLNT (Untitled) (2:06)
  28. Laszlo (4:54)
  29. Torch Song (3:59)
  30. Meet the Plastics - Demo (2:56)
  31. The World Is Flat - Demo (4:18)
  32. Empire - Demo (3:48)

Credits

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