KARATE - Some Boots LP Color:Ice Or Ground Vinyl Vocal-led pieces ‘Still Beach’ and

Vocal-led pieces ‘Still Beach’ and ‘Fragments of Blue’ are brittle and intoxicating

slow skull smashers

It’s close

from a musical legacy that chronicles a long list of minor successes and major tragedies

(Jensen Ward)

KARATE - Some Boots LP Color:Ice Or Ground Vinyl Vocal-led pieces ‘Still Beach’ andThe three musicians in Karate put together a puzzling thing. A 90s punk band with an inimitable grasp of jazz, they stood out in a scene that made neophyte musicianship a badge of honor; Karate also helmed an understated mastery of slowcore that could shift the air around listeners and made each band member seem at least a few decades older than their drivers licenses would indicate. Their stylistic twists and turns eluded definition for years,