Karate - Karate [Vinyl] France there’s a lot of mystery

there’s a lot of mystery surrounding this first major undertaking by ISSUGI

Incorporating the sounds of dream pop

But there are very few moments where you wouldn’t know you were hearing Dinosaur Jr

/50 Clear w/Black Smoke (Semi Collective Records)

Karate - Karate [Vinyl] France there’s a lot of mysteryUnderground rock festered and splintered as it spread through the U. S. in the mid 90s, the alternative boom giving rise to microcosmic regional scenes singularly focused on feral powerviolence or screamo songs about breakfast. Bostons Karate emerged as a force that could grip a national youth movement whose disparate tastes still commingled in the inky pages of fanzines overflowing with florid prose and on concert calendars for volunteer run DIY