Last summer my opinion completely changed on Karate. I initially downloaded a few of their albums way back in the early 2000's, but they never really moved me, and after a while I ended up throwing out those old burned CDRs that I'd made. So no one was more shocked than I was when I decided to casually check them out after reading Ralf's post over at It All Comes Down To This, and then Karate quickly became one of my most listened to bands over the past 12 months. In that time, I'd picked up In Place Of Real Insight (1997), The Bed Is In The Ocean (1998) and Unsolved (2000), but I'd never gotten down to check out the eponymous debut from 1995.
Karate is one of those rare examples where I think that I like the band's later records more their first. There is a real cool jazzy feeling from stuff later on that isn't so prevalent here on the debut. Don't get me wrong, it is still great stuff, but it is a bit more straight forward indie than the more original sound that they developed in the records after. I still really dig this, and have been spinning it a lot since picking up the record.
There were a few different pressings to pick up for this record, but all of the ones that I've picked up for Karate have been recent Numbero Group colored vinyl reissues, so I went with that for the self-titled too... plus the webstore had it on sale for only $20.
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