No Energy is a compilation box set by the band Unwound. Review by Sam Hockley-Smith: No Energy is essential even without that information. Listening to these box sets in order (don’t do it all at once), Unwound’s growth is clear: they moved from scrappy punk band with interesting ideas to a musically precise machine, harnessing feedback squalls, goopy drums, and guitars that sounded like they were repeatedly bashed against a brick wall, in an effort to approach dark transcendental bliss through repetition and coiled tension. In the liner notes for No Energy, drummer Sara Lund writes, “We learned to communicate Read more on Last.fm.
