As a robust rock underground got swallowed alive by the Major Label Industrial Complex, the very autonomous UnwoundOlympia, Washingtons Great Noise Hopetoed the troublesome line between pay check and Check Engine light. Captured in the gaps of a ruthless touring schedule, defining fourth and fifth albums The Future of What and Repetition were issued in the back-to-back springs of 1995 and 96. Both find the band severing their post-hardcore roots, for gripping detours into Echoplex, kraut, D&B, and Mingus, as guided by a sun-worn copy of Book Your Own Fuckin Life.

No Energy collects both of these 1990s masterworks, beginning with Justin Trospers home-made haircut stabs on New Energy, continuing with Vern Rumseys reanimating bass on Corpse Pose, and closing in a wall of Sara Lund crash cymbals on For Your Entertainment. This 33-song collection is buttressed by singles and period live tracks, a pile of double-exposed photographs, and a 10,000 word essay by latter-day Unwound diarist David Wilcox.