Unwilling to Explain

Unwilling to Explain
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 22, 2019
RecordedDecember, 2011
Venue
  • Bisquiteen, Amherst, MA
  • Casa Hanzo, San Pedro, CA
  • Cleanest Dirty Shirt, Toledo, OH
  • tHUNDERpANTS, San Pedro, CA
GenreExperimental rock, improvised music
Length43:35
LabelORG Music
ProducerMike Watt, Dan McGuire
Unknown Instructors chronology
Funland
(2009)
Unwilling to Explain
(2019)

Unwilling to Explain is the fourth album by American improvisational band Unknown Instructors, featuring Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE), George Hurley (Minutemen, fIREHOSE), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), and Dan McGuire.

It was the first Unknown Instructors album that wasn't improvised and the first to feature Mascis on guitar instead of Baiza. The recording took quite some time with Watt recording bass tracks in 2011 and Hurley laying down the drums the following year. Mascis' guitar work was recorded three years after that with Dan McGuire's vocals following.