WEDNESDAY - Twin Plagues LP emo Karate’s music was an enigma

Karate’s music was an enigma

sometimes left naked and unchanged as with the ethereal opening line (“Shall”) or the sensuous R&B refrains on “We”

its hard not to be caught up with Sjunne’s personal vision of a ‘Polymood Music’ Painstakingly transferred and fully remastered from the original tapes

they prove to be the masters of 60s-influenced psychedelic garagepop

is not a sad tale of nostalgia

WEDNESDAY - Twin Plagues LP emo Karate’s music was an enigmaRepressed via Dead Oceans. In a long and emotionally exhausting year of being inside (alone, in my case,) I have found myself thinking about mirrors. How to avoid spending too much time in them, most days. Taking inventory of the real, physical self is difficult work, work that Im not entirely opposed to but work that became immediately more treacherous for me when I had to witness the very real toll that time, modern anxieties, isolation, and boredom