Unwound: Rat Conspiracy

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Levrikon Rat Conspiracy collects Unwound's first two albums, which are a little more indebted to the grunge sound of the time they were recorded compared to the singular experimental hardcore sound they developed starting with the next album. Thrashy and buzzy and ugly and great. Favorite track: All Soul's Day.

rom439 Noisy nihilism. I love it. Favorite track: Dragnalus.

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1.	Dragnalus 03:28	buy track
2.	Lucky Acid 01:40	buy track
3.	Nervous Energy 04:49	buy track
4.	Valentine Card 03:25	buy track
5.	Kantina 04:44	buy track
6.	Were, Are And Was Or is 05:44	buy track
7.	Honourosis 04:44	buy track
8.	Pure Pain Sugar 02:34	buy track
9.	Gravity Slips 01:44	buy track
10.	Star Spangled Hell 03:50	buy track
11.	Ratbite 02:41	buy track
12.	Feeling$ Real 05:14	buy track
13.	Entirely Different Matters 02:03	buy track
14.	What Was Wound 02:28	buy track
15.	Envelope 03:20	buy track
16.	Hexenszene 04:34	buy track
17.	Abstraktions 07:10	buy track
18.	All Soul's Day 03:12	buy track
19.	Usual Dosage 05:13	buy track
20.	Arboretum 04:55	buy track
21.	Fiction Friction 06:38	buy track
22.	Broken E-Strings 03:10	buy track
23.	Totality 03:05	buy track
24.	Mkultra 04:46	buy track
25.	Eternalux 04:56	buy track
26.	Unsympathetica 04:23	buy track
27.	Negated 04:37	buy track
28.	Said Serial 02:27	buy track
29.	Census 01:49	buy track
30.	Plight 01:55	buy track
31.	Untitled 1 02:05	buy track
32.	Untitled 2 07:36	buy track

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Rat Conspiracy, its name a one-time working title for Unwound’s 1993 debut—the earliest Kill Rock Stars LP—brings the roiling, watershed Fake Train into natural integration with its sibling record, 1994’s New Plastic Ideas, on which the band “branch[ed] out into propulsive odd meters...and traumatic contrasts between loud and soft, pulling the arty riffage into much tighter focus.” [Trouser Press]. Both get exacting remasters and replica sleeve treatment, while the set’s third LP tracks Unwound’s restless work toward synthesis with the Mkultra and Negated 7” material, previously unissued radio sessions, indie comp rarities, and the spidery Minutemen cover “Plight.”

This chapter intros the Olympia, Washington, noise-punk trio anew, kicking off with hi-hat thwaks on “Dragnalus” from drummer Sara Lund, whose lockstep partnership with Justin Trosper and Vern Rumsey marked the forging of a 1990s indie-rock legend. The band’s advancing threat is captured in 32 tracks, a trove of house-show b&w period photographs, and a vivid 10,000-word narrative by latter-day Unwound diarist David Wilcox.

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released March 18, 2014

2014, 2014 Numero Group

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