Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Karate's catalog across 6 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 6.9/10. The top-rated Karate album is The Bed Is In the Ocean (1997) with a 8.6/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Pockets and 595. The discography on Wavelength spans 1997 to 2024.
The Bed Is In the Ocean
“The latest entry in a vital reissue series from Numero Group lives at the nexus of the Boston jazz-rock band’s strange evolution. Their daring interplay sounds as if the songs are still being constructed as you listen.”
Pockets
“Serial dabbler and all-around renaissance man Geoff Farina leads Karate on mostly post-rock-free trip through the worlds of emo, jazz, and 1970s pop/rock.”
Unsolved
“On 1997's *In Place of Real Insight*, Karate made an intelligent, straight-ahead rock album that borrowed the stop-start cadences and tired loud-soft dynamics of D.C. rock, and filtered them through a grad student geek-chic sensibility. And it worked. The resulting music was rough-edged but musicianly, sounding kind of like the Warmers after a half-year of music lessons. Geoff Farina's effete, lil”
595
“Karate's first official live album-- a recording of the band's 595th show, performed in Leuven, Belgium-- shows how far they evolved as musicians during their decade-long run.”
Make It Fit
“Over a decade and six albums that marked the turn of the last century, Boston's Karate chopped together an aesthetic that combined elements of emo, slowcore and jazz. This versatility made each of their albums thrilling and unpredictable and also charted the progress of singer and guitarist Geoff Farina's instrumental approach, becoming more adventurous with each passing year. An issue with Farina”
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