Unwound - EmpireLabel: Numero Released 2015 The climactic entry in Numero Group's four set UNWOUND exploration, Empire compiles the final pair of albums by the Olympia, Washington, trio. On 1998's Challenge For A Civilized Society, the band toyed with conventional verse chorus form, stacking layers of noise and distraction on top of tightly constructed melodies. They'd abdicate entirely just three years later with 2001's Leaves Turn Inside You, executing a 14 song

we made sure each element was perfect

Diane Young

Episode XVI

the engineer of their previous two LPs

That's What You Always Say (Live at the Country Club

Jade-Dust Eyes

One Evening

which drew upon influences Weezer and Jawbreaker

Originally released on CD in Japan 2001

Good Company

‘Ambient 1 (Music For Airports)’ was the first album ever to be explicitly labelled ‘ambient music’

this is one of the few post-1955 appearances of Miles Davis as a sideman