Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Music news Untied States goes pop without going soft
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Three years have passed since Untied States checked in with 2006's Retail Detail. Since then, a lot has changed for the unhinged art-rock ensemble centered around Colin Arnstein and Skip Engelbrecht. Their third full-length, Instant Everything, Constant Nothing drops this month on the Paris-based Distile Records, and it's a concerted stab at making a pop record — albeit one filtered through the schizoid, post-industrial psychedelia that's been their calling card all along.
"Blues, punk, rock and roll ... all of these things freaked people out at one point in time, and we want to freak people out, too. But we want the music to be timeless," says Arnstein, who shares vocal and guitar duties with Engelbrecht. "A great example of what we're aiming for is Joy Division. Their records scare you. They were stepping out on so much of a limb that you don't know if you're comfortable listening to it."
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