KARATE - Unsolved TAPE Ambient language barriers

language barriers

Underperforming commercially at the hands of short lived label IEA Records

designed by artist Taro Okamoto is a trail-marker on Erika's journey

Alex Zhang Hungtai’s deconstructed cover of Sinatra sits beside Aya’s darkened Lovesong

KARATE - Unsolved TAPE Ambient language barriersAs Warped Tour pop punk and American Apparel indie rock dominated the strange post Y2K guitar band milieu, Boston's Karate delivered an engrossing shot of rock that constantly shifted between several shades of subterranean sounds. The quiet moments on Karate's millennium busting fourth album carry much of that old, unbridled intensity, braided into subdued jazz melodies and slowcore restraint. Karate's transition into rock maturity bore supple fruit