Unwound are an American post-hardcore/noise rock band from Olympia, Washington, led by Justin Trosper and active primarily in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Fake Train was released in 1993 on Kill Rock Stars. Leaves Turn Inside You is presented as a double album and is cited as the band's final major statement in reviews. Justin Trosper is identified in reviews as the band's leader. The band is repeatedly associated with the Olympia indie/noise scene and influences such as Sonic Youth and Fugazi.

DeBaser's reviews present Unwound as a seminal Olympia band that moved from raw hardcore roots to expansive, experimental double-album territory. Reviewers praise the band's visceral energy, melodic depth and late-period ambition. Albums frequently highlighted: Fake Train, New Plastic Ideas, Repetition and Leaves Turn Inside You.

For:Listeners of 1990s post-hardcore/noise rock, fans of Sonic Youth/Fugazi-influenced music, readers of underground album criticism.

 Stop creating masterpieces but be masterpieces, and so it was.

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 Leaves Turn Inside You is me. I am the one fleeing motionless. I escape while staying in my world.

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 New Plastic Ideas manages to balance the schizophrenia that permanently lives within this band: What Was Found is a filthy and violent hardcore punk that doubles in intensity with sudden explosions, Hexezsene recovers the post-hardcore of Rites Of Spring and Squirrel Bait and minimizes it to the contemporary wave of emo-bands giving it an enviable intensity, All Souls Day is one of the best tracks from Action Park by Shellac released 7 months later; but the high point remains and will remain for eternity the instrumental Abstraktions, a powerful mini-suite between Slint (and Rodan) and the raw slowcore of Codeine.

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 They danced on the burning carcass of the nineties all the way to the end.

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 The child has grown up, not abandoning the family sound but shaping it to their liking by adding what was missing, like some scattered winds here and there, a bit of electronics just for good measure, deliberately dirtier recordings, and above all, a breath of sadness pervading the entire work, enveloping the listener in their sound world.

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