ARTIST: Untied States
TITLE: Retail Detail
LABEL: Self-Released
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 218kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 32m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-02-24
RIP DATE: 2006-02-08
Track List
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1. It's Not Goodbye 2:29
2. Retell The Tale 1:29
3. Martyrs Have Nothing To Live 4:17
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4. You Own Your Own 4:43
5. (1) Mile Aisle 1:06
6. My Cause Is My Curse 2:21
7. We Don't Have To Climb 4:06
8. Immaculate 4:06
9. Retail Detail 1:08
10. Can't Get Around It 2:40
11. Currencies 0:52
12. It's Not Enough 3:24
Release Notes:
http://www.untiedstates.us/
It would be inaccurate to refer to Untied States as purely experimental. There
are recognizable structures of traditional rock music present in their work û
vestiges of their years of practicing to the point of internalization. There are
regular drumbeats, guitar chord progressions, and lyrics that provide a
sophisticated and stable skeleton for the songs. The texture and taste of the
music, however, is highly protean, with original and sampled sounds both
recognizable and foreign to a listener, creating an unusual sense of
displacement. It is the tension between the traditional structures and wild
tissue of Untied StatesÆ music that makes it most interesting. There is a
simultaneous near-sadomasochistic desire for binding structure, and frenetic
attempts to escape it. Untied States believes that in their efforts to invoke
terribly, sometimes uncomfortably personal expressions, pure euphony would be,
simply, phony. This does not mean that there are not nuggets of creepy
loveliness imbedded within their dramatic range of song-works. But sweet tones
are usually only maintained long enough to establish a clean palate for some
warbling sonic surprise. The music of Untied States presents a collage of how
they perceive experience û sometimes beautiful, always in danger of twittering
out into chaos.