Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993's Fake Train ripped through, they'd been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material into something built to explode. From Justin Trosper, Vern Rumsey, and Brandt Sandeno's first restive years, "Crab Nebula'' might've best prepared the indie-sphere for what Unwound became, had Sandeno's split not stalled their planned debut. Part 1 in Numero's 4-part reissue project, Kid Is Gone documents signal chaos in Olympia's fertile scene before Unwound's turbulent noise hit stride, in unrevealed period photos, 34 tracks, and three LPs-cassette-only demos, early 7''s, a KAOS radio broadcast, material tracked live in a local basement, and all of what became 1994's Unwound, on which the band's prehistory plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise. http://youtu.be/KlUkxqBwXqg Kid Is Gone: A1 Bionic A2 LD-50 A3 Lying At Best A4 Stumbling Block A5 Whilst You're A Head A6 Rubber Band Heart B1 Crab Nebula B2 Caterpillar B3 Miserific Condition B4 Love And Fear B5 You Speak Jealousy C1 Antifreeze C2 Rising Blood C3 Understand & Forget C4 Fingertips C5 You Bite My Tongue C6 Stuck In The Middle Of Nowhere Again D1 Warmth D2 Prospect D3 Kid Is Gone D4 Kandy Korn Rituals D5 Against D6 I'd Die To Know You D7 Sugarfit E1 Understand & Forget (KAOS session) E2 Miserific Condition (KAOS session) E3 Against (KAOS session) E4 Ape Skins (KAOS session) E5 Awkward (KAOS session) F1 Antifreeze (Live) F2 Rising Blood (Live) F3 Prospect (Live) F4 Stuck In The Middle Of Nowhere Again (Live) F5 Hating In D (Live)