Unwound Announce Final Box Set in Complete Recordings Reissue Campaign

The Numero Group are finally wrapping up their comprehensive Unwound reissue campaign. Thus far, the label has released three collections from the Olympia post-hardcore band: Kid Is Gone, Rat Conspiracy, and No Energy, plus a reissue of the pre-Unwound band Giant Henry’s album Big Baby. The box set Empire is the final installment; it’s out September 4. 

Empire collects Unwound’s 1998 album Challenge for a Civilized Society and 2001’s Leaves Turn Inside You. It also features singles, B-sides, unreleased tracks, demos, and a 15,000-word essay. Find the full tracklist below a trailer for the set.

Empire:

Disc 1 (Challenge for a Civilized Society):

01 Data
02 Laugh Track
03 Meet the Plastics
04 The World is Flat
05 Sonata for Loudspeakers
06 NO TECH
07 Side Effects of Being Tired
08 Lifetime Achievement Award
09 What Went Wrong

Disc 2 & 3 (Leaves Turn Inside You):

01 We Invent You
02 Look a Ghost
03 December in Thai
04 Treachery
05 Terminus
06 Demons Sing Love Songs
07 Off This Century
08 One Lick Less
09 Scarlett
10 October All Over
11 Summer Freeze
12 Radio GRA
13 Below the Salt
14 Who Cares

Disc 4 (Empire):

01 Mile Me Deaf
02 The Light at the End of the Tunnel Is a Train
03 Solo Sonata
04 XNLT
05 Laszlo
06 Torch Song
07 Meet the Plastics (Demo)
08 The World Is Flat (Demo)
09 Empire (Demo)