Summary from 8 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Karate’s catalog across 6 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 6.9/10. The top-rated Karate album is The Bed Is In the Ocean (1997) with a 8.6/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Pockets and 595. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1997 to 2024.
The Bed Is In the Ocean
“The latest entry in a vital reissue series from Numero Group lives at the nexus of the Boston jazz-rock band’s strange evolution. Their daring interplay sounds as if the songs are still being constructed as you listen.”
Pockets
“Serial dabbler and all-around renaissance man Geoff Farina leads Karate on mostly post-rock-free trip through the worlds of emo, jazz, and 1970s pop/rock.”
Unsolved
“On 1997's *In Place of Real Insight*, Karate made an intelligent, straight-ahead rock album that borrowed the stop-start cadences and tired loud-soft dynamics of D.C. rock, and filtered them through a grad student geek-chic sensibility. And it worked. The resulting music was rough-edged but musicianly, sounding kind of like the Warmers after a half-year of music lessons. Geoff Farina's effete, lil”