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- Summary: The box set collects the Olympia-based indie rock trio's 1993 release Fake Train, 1994's New Plastic Ideas and a disc of singles, radio sessions and unreleased tracks.
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- Record Label: Numero Group
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore, Indie Rock, Noise-Rock
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Mar 21, 2014Fake Train and New Plastic Ideas hold important places in the history of 90s music, not to mention those of punk and indie as a whole. And they set the tone for unimagined Unwound greatness to come (which will be chronicled in subsequent volumes of the box-set series). But those two albums, and the tracks that accompany them on Rat Conspiracy, transcend time, place, attitude, and even the sprawling continuum of influence.
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Mar 21, 2014The set is essential to any fan, and these records are near-perfect documents of the roots of indie rock and D.I.Y. culture that started growing in the unheard music and handmade expressions of the early '90s.
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Mar 21, 2014The best thing about Rat Conspiracy is the reminder that this stuff feels fresh now, cutting edge, even timeless.
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May 9, 2014For all their three-pronged power and musical fluidity, Unwound didn't, perhaps, quite make music which transcended the genres, styles and subcultures it was associated with.... If nothing else, this two-hour compendium of righteous, often superlative noise demonstrates that they could also cater to dancin' feet, and ears looking to be bled like radiators.
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MagnetMar 21, 2014There was more to the melody of Unwound than just a few simple, catchy primitive riffs. [No. 107, p.61]
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