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Unwound: Rat Conspiracy Numero group Unwound: Rat Conspiracy Catalog Number: NUM202.3 Artist: Unwound Title: Rat Conspiracy Release Date: 3/18/14 UPC: 825764520232 Available formats: 3lp Genre: Rock Vinyl is not returnable Track Listing Fake Train 01. Dragnalus LP 02. Lucky Acid 03. Nervous Energy 04. Valentine Card 05. Kantina 06. Were, Are And Was Or is 07. Honourosis 08. Pure Pain Sugar The 2nd installment in Numero’s exhaustive 4-part 09. Gravity Slips Unwound reissue undertaking. This chapter intros the 10. Star Spangled Hell Olympia, Washington, noise-punk trio anew, kicking off with 11. Ratbite 12 Feeling$ Real hi-hat thwaks on “Dragnalus” from drummer Sara Lund, whose lockstep partnership with Justin Trosper and Vern Rumsey New Plastic Ideas marked the forging of a 1990s indie-rock legend. The band’s 01. Entirely Different Matters advancing threat is captured in 32 tracks, a trove of house-show 02. What Was Wound b&w period photographs, and a vivid 10,000-word narrative 03. Envelope by latter-day Unwound diarist David Wilcox. 04. Hexenszene Rat Conspiracy, its name a one-time working title for 05. Abstraktions Unwound’s 1993 debut—the earliest Kill Rock Stars LP—brings 06. All Soul’s Day the roiling, watershed Fake Train into natural integration with 07. Usual Dosage its sibling record, 1994’s New Plastic Ideas, on which the band 08. Arboretum “branch[ed] out into propulsive odd meters...and traumatic 09. Fiction Friction contrasts between loud and soft, pulling the arty riffage into much tighter focus.” [Trouser Press]. Both get exacting Rat Conspiracy remasters and replica sleeve treatment, while the set’s third 01. Broken E-Strings 07. Said Serial LP tracks Unwound’s restless work toward synthesis with the 02. Totality 08. Census Mkultra and Negated 7” material, previously unissued radio 03. Mkultra 09. Plight sessions, indie comp rarities, and the spidery Minutemen cover 04. Eternalux 10. Untitled 1 “Plight.” 05. Unsympathetica 11. Untitled 2 06. Negated.
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