There Are Ghosts

Karate

Formé à Boston en 1993 par Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt et Gavin McCarthy, Karate s’est adjoint les services de Jeff Goddard à la basse en 1995. Le groupe a sorti six albums studio, deux EP, de nombreux singles et des split 7 » entre 1994 et 2005. Depuis ses racines punk, le groupe s’est largement aventuré dans le jazz-rock, le post-rock et une version unique du slowcore dans ses expérimentations indie progressives. Vitt est parti à l’école de médecine en 1997 et Farina a quitté le groupe en 2005 à cause de problèmes d’audition.

Les albums du groupe sur Southern Records ont été épuisés. Et le fondateur du label, John Loder, est décédé en 2005, ce qui a compliqué les choses. En 2020, un article du Chicago Reader a remarqué que les albums de Karate atteignaient des prix de vinyles rares en ligne. Les fans de longue date du Numero Group sont intervenus et ont proposé d’aider le groupe à récupérer ses albums, en envoyant littéralement une camionnette dans le nord de l’Angleterre pour récupérer les bandes maîtresses de Karate.

Karate s’est reformé en 2022 pour soutenir la réédition de sa musique sur Numero Group. Time Expired, un coffret de 5 LP, se concentre sur les derniers albums et EPs du trio. The Complete Studio Recordings, sorti en 2023, rassemble les six albums studio, les singles et les compilations dans un coffret CD de luxe.

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Boston’s Karate unraveled the tightly coiled energy of post-hardcore, playing angular riffs with clean, spacious guitar tones and adding a technical precision often intentionally avoided by their scrappier peers. The band’s patient tempos and pensive atmospheres made their first two albums (1995’s Karate and 1997’s In Place of Real Insight) border on slowcore at times, but they later began incorporating a heavy jazz influence into their already heady brew of punk-adjacent styles, adding improvisation and post-rock touches to albums like 2000’s Unsolved. Karate broke up in 2005, but they reunited in 2022 when Numero Group began reissuing their long out-of-print catalog. In addition to individually re-releasing the albums, the campaign also included box sets like 2022’s Time Expired, which collected the group’s final three studio albums and a smattering of other miscellaneous or previously unreleased tracks, as well as 2023’s Complete Studio Recordings, which included almost everything the band put to tape.

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Formed in Boston in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy, Karate added Jeff Goddard on bass in 1995. The band released six studio albums, two EPs, numerous singles, and split 7”s between 1994 and 2005. From punk roots, the band ventured widely—veering into jazz-rock, post-rock and a unique version of slowcore in its progressive indie experimentation.

Vitt left for med school in 97 and Farina called the band quits in 2005 because of hearing issues.

Something happened in the meantime. The band’s albums on Southern Records went out of print. And the label’s founder John Loder passed in 2005, complicating things. In 2020, a Chicago Reader article noticed Karate’s albums were fetching rare vinyl prices online. Longtime fans the Numero Group stepped in and offered to help the band get its albums back—literally sending a van to the North of England to pick up Karate’s master tapes.

Karate reunited in 2022 to support the re-release of its music on Numero Group. Time Expired, a 5-LP set, focused on the trio’s later albums and EPs. The Complete Studio Recordings released in 2023, gathered all six studio albums, singles, and compilation tracks in a deluxe CD set.

While a box set might be a nice way to tie a bow on a band story and move on, the men in Karate discovered they had more to say.

Make It Fit

The band re-emerges in Fall 2024 with Make It Fit, its first new studio record since 2004’s Pockets.

Things have changed since 2004, however. Now living thousands of miles apart, Farina, Goddard and McCarthy couldn’t hop down the street to their Boston neighborhood practice space and patiently hammer improvisations into shape as songs. Karate’s members are distributed around the globe—Geoff Farina lives in Chicago, Gavin McCarthy remains in Boston and Jeff Goddard lives in Belgium. The band had to write and rehearse Make It Fit remotely with intermittent meets.

Karate embraced a hybrid approach to rehearsing. Members hashed out parts in their individual home studios, digitally sharing ideas for Farina’s songs and meeting periodically to rehearse them, not always as a trio. That created some surprise moments—the first time Farina heard one fabulous Goddard bassline was when the band had convened in Iceland to play shows there.

While Karate’s reunion tours have been remarkably smooth, making an album presented some challenges. By the time the group arrived in Nashville, TN in January 2024 to track the album with longtime collaborator Andy Hong, the trio had demoed the songs a few times and felt confident. That initial optimism was dampened, and anxiety amplified when the trio remembered a detail: Hong was still building his studio. Much of Hong’s recording gear was packed in shrink-wrap. He’d need time to get the studio up and running. And Karate’s members had a day to stress and wonder if they’d hit a concrete barrier on reunion road. “Why don’t we ever record in a fancy studio where everything is ready to go when we arrive, and we have two weeks to record ten songs? We don’t seem to ever do that,” Farina notes. “That would be too easy,” replies McCarthy, “Plus Andy works at a higher level. This is normal to him.”

The band kept its faith in Hong. In 24 hours, he had completely wired the new studio, and the four soon fell into a familiar and comfortable routine they had practiced on their better-known records. Karate completed basic tracks in Nashville. Farina added guitars and vocals back at his home studio and the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. And Hong mixed the album.

Make It Fit, the band’s first album in 20 years, doesn’t try to recapture a youthful, DIY-era magic. Instead, it picks up where Karate’s three musicians are today: with a deeper skillset, adult angst cut through with moments of joy, punctuated with searing instrumental performances.

Make It Fit is the opposite of a cynical cash-in. It’s daring, requiring a full commitment from band and audience. And Karate’s reunion is soaking in gratitude. This time around, Farina says he appreciates it all more. “I appreciate that I’m playing a show. I used to get up on stage and be annoyed at this and be annoyed at that. Now I get up on stage and feel incredibly lucky. Just being able to do it again is so much fun. Just hearing us together on stage feels so right.

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The reunited Karate announce Make It Fit, their much-anticipated first studio album in 20 years. Coming October 18th on Numero Group, and featuring ten new tracks mixed by long time collaborator Andy Hong, they're also sharing two of those - the album's opener in "Defendants" and its closer in "Silence, Sound".

Formed in Boston in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy, Karate added Jeff Goddard on bass in 1995. The band released six studio albums, two EPs, numerous singles, and split 7”s between 1994 and 2005. From punk roots, the band ventured widely - veering into jazz-rock, post-rock and a unique version of slowcore in its progressive indie experimentation.

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The reunited Karate announce Make It Fit, their much-anticipated first studio album in 20 years. Coming October 18th on Numero Group, and featuring ten new tracks mixed by long time collaborator Andy Hong, they're also sharing two of those - the album's opener in "Defendants" and its closer in "Silence, Sound".

Formed in Boston in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy, Karate added Jeff Goddard on bass in 1995. The band released six studio albums, two EPs, numerous singles, and split 7”s between 1994 and 2005. From punk roots, the band ventured widely - veering into jazz-rock, post-rock and a unique version of slowcore in its progressive indie experimentation.

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I Karate annunciano Make It Fit, il loro attesissimo primo album in studio dopo 20 anni. In uscita il 18 ottobre per Numero Group, l'album contiene dieci nuovi brani mixati dal loro storico collaboratore Andy Hong. La band condivide anche due dei brani: l'album si apre con "Defendants" e si chiude con "Silence, Sound".  
Formatisi a Boston nel 1993 da Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt e Gavin McCarthy, i Karate aggiunsero Jeff Goddard al basso nel 1995. Nel corso degli anni, la band ha pubblicato sei album in studio, due EP, numerosi singoli e split 7” tra il 1994 e il 2005. Pur partendo da radici punk, il loro suono si è evoluto, spaziando dal jazz-rock al post-rock e sviluppando una versione distintiva del slowcore attraverso la loro sperimentazione indie progressiva.  
Vitt lasciò la band nel 1997 per frequentare la facoltà di medicina e Farina decise di sciogliere il gruppo nel 2005 a causa di problemi di udito. Nel frattempo, però, sono successe alcune cose importanti. Gli album della band su Southern Records sono andati fuori catalogo e il fondatore dell’etichetta, John Loder, è venuto a mancare nel 2005, complicando ulteriormente la situazione. Nel 2020, un articolo del Chicago Reader ha messo in evidenza che gli album dei Karate venivano venduti a prezzi elevati come vinili rari online. I fan di lunga data della Numero Group sono intervenuti per aiutare la band a recuperare il suo catalogo, inviando addirittura un furgone nel nord dell'Inghilterra per ritirare le master tapes dei Karate.  
I Karate si sono riuniti nel 2022 per supportare la ristampa della loro musica con Numero Group. Time Expired, un cofanetto da 5 LP, raccoglieva gli album e gli EP più recenti della band. Nel 2023, The Complete Studio Recordings è stato rilasciato, includendo tutti i sei album in studio, singoli e tracce da compilation in un set deluxe CD.  
Anche se un cofanetto avrebbe potuto sembrare un modo perfetto per concludere la storia della band, i Karate hanno scoperto di avere ancora qualcosa da dire.  
Make It Fit è disponibile per il pre-ordine ora su CD, cassetta e LP in edizione limitata di colore biondo, LP "Bleach The Scene" in edizione crystal-clear e LP nero standard.

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Formed in Boston in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy, Karate added Jeff Goddard on bass in 1995. The band released six studio albums, two EPs, numerous singles, and split 7”s between 1994 and 2005. From punk roots, the band ventured widely—veering into jazz-rock, post-rock and a unique version of slowcore in its progressive indie experimentation.

The band re-emerges in Fall 2024 with Make It Fit, its first new studio record since 2004’s Pockets. Make It Fit, the band’s first album in 20 years, doesn’t try to recapture a youthful, DIY-era magic. Instead, it picks up where Karate’s three musicians are today: with a deeper skillset, adult angst cut through with moments of joy, punctuated with searing instrumental performances.

Make It Fit is the opposite of a cynical cash-in. It’s daring, requiring a full commitment from band and audience. And Karate’s reunion is soaking in gratitude. This time around, Farina says he appreciates it all more. “I appreciate that I’m playing a show. I used to get up on stage and be annoyed at this and be annoyed at that. Now I get up on stage and feel incredibly lucky. Just being able to do it again is so much fun. Just hearing us together on stage feels so right.

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**Karate at Underground Arts**

**Thursday, June 12, 2025**

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Formed in Boston in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy, Karate added Jeff Goddard on bass in 1995. The band released six studio albums, two EPs, numerous singles, and split 7”s between 1994 and 2005. From punk roots, the band ventured widely—veering into jazz-rock, post-rock and a unique version of slowcore in its progressive indie experimentation.

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