Karate 'If You Can Hold Your Breath'

Karate’s first five years, boxed in classic Numero fashion and annotated by frontman Geoff Farina. Collaging DC posthardcore, De Stijl, and Django Reinhardt, this five LP set includes their self-titled debut, In Place of Real Insight, The Bed Is In The Ocean, period 7”s, and previously unissued 1993 demo.

41 late millennium accounts of 2AM bike rides, punk house floors, skinny dipping, regrettable tattoos, and Interstate 95 commuting, all remastered from the original tapes and housed in sturdy tip-on sleeves for the discerning Karate enthusiast. Don’t drown.

Tracklisting:
LP 1 S/T 
Side A
1. Gasoline 
2. If You Can Hold Your Breath 
3. Trophy 
4. What Is Sleep? 
5. - - - 

Side B
6. Bad Tattoo 
7. Every Sister 
8. Bodies 
9. Caffeine Or Me?

LP 2 In Place Of Real Insight 
Side C
1. This, Plus Slow Song 
2. New Martini 
3. Wake Up, Decide 
4. It’s 98 Stop 

Side D
5. New New 
6. The New Hangout Condition 
7. On Cutting 
8. Die Die 
9. Today Or Tomorrow

LP 3 The Bed Is In The Ocean 
Side E
1. There Are Ghosts 
2. The Same Stars 
3. Diazapam 
4. The Last Wars 
5. Bass Sounds 

Side F
6. Up Nights 
7. Fatal Strategies 
8. Outside Is The Drama 
9. Not To Call The Police

LP 4 Demo 
Side
1. Cherry Coke 
2. Remembering To Forget 
3. Hard Song 
4. First Time 

Side H
5. Dating Is Stupid 
6. Starfish 
7. Schwinn 
8. Remembering Reprise

LP5 7” and EPs
Side I
1. Death Kit 
2. Nerve 
3. Cherry Coke (7inch version) 

Side J
4. The Schwinn (7inch version) 
5. Operation: Sand 
6. Empty There