I met some Bad Bad People once (twice? three times?) in DC -- there was J. Tom Hnatow, Mark Charles, and Josh Read among em -- and then they said Hey There Are These Wildmen Who Live in the Woods of Kentucky Succumb to Them Now: one Robby Cosenza, two Justin Craig. we did. we made another album, in Lexington, fast, called CRIMES. it's about crimes - the Good kinds, the Bad kinds, the Meaningless, the Historic...
the other Brawlers Bawlers Bastards surrounding us (closing in, even), shaping us, those're: Duane Lundy, the ProduceMan, Winston Yu, our secret spy inside of the World Bank and General Guiding Guru, still somehow damn David, in one forms or the Other...
birds leaving, nights of Chicago, every thunder, the things Twain thought, the Staten Island commuter ferry, stories lies loves, Miles' space or breath, epic walks across massive cities, winding paths between tiny ones, dreams from inside of Jim Henson, thin wild Mercury, teeth tongues necks, Bo Diddley on fire, the widest blue possible, the impossible, Hunter Thompson's time well spent, fermented fruit, Norton Juster's tollbooth, day dying on the pale purple Pacific, people who live and those who try, the rhythm section of Shakespeare's brain, her hair, This American Life, cabbies in DC, Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem (see below).
"...the kind of legs that don’t just clutch your undivided attention, but they envelope you, making you feel like soil piled onto soil, so naturally one with everything around you. It’s a feeling that doesn’t come from many records or out of very many people...It is, without being at all overly enthusiastic, one of the best records you will hear this year and it will make you feel completely human. You’ll feel your fingernails grow. You’ll start to understand what all of your facial muscles do when they’re not smiling or frowning. You’ll taste that blood as it finds all of your many cracks and detours. "
"Plugging into this beauty makes the decision to post immediately a rather easy one. Jesse Elliott’s ultra articulate stroke of psych folk, A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden will take a while to completely digest…always a nice change of pace from simpler, immediate announcements like, “hey, here we are, and here is what we do, you dig?” No, Elliott and his mega band (he called upon some 30 D.C area musicians to lend a helping hand in recording the 36 minute album) crisscross plenty of ground on this debut. Ticking off genres, These United States paint a bold checkmark in the columns of pop, folk, rock, country, jazz, and lounge…and further listens are sure to reveal plenty more. Then there is the dense penmanship of Elliott himself…kind of gives Andrew Bird or Destroyer a run for their money in that department, if you ask me. All and all, expect to hear plenty more about this album, and the band that threw it all together."
Get Yourself Home - by These United States - dir. Jared Varava
These United States rambles too much for its own Good.** Seriously. Go see them live. They'll ramble your face off. Meantime, life outside goes on all around you...
BOOKING -- Jeremy Hadley, INVISIBLE CITY -- Email // Website
PRESS -- Daniel Gill, FORCE FIELD PR -- Email // Website
RADIO -- George Corona, TERRORBIRD -- Email // Website
TEAM -- Kyle Wofford, UNITED INTERESTS -- Email // Website
ARTIST(E) -- etc. et al., THESE UNITED STATES -- Email // Website
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**Though if you miss that long and winding rant that used to occupy this space (godblessye, LeLoup), worry no more; it's still here. And the kind things they said about us that made us blush but feel real loved inside, them're here, too.
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Dearest These United States, I am eagerly awaiting your arrival at Swarthmore (SWATHmore to the natives, what can I say, we don't like the "r") so's I can tap my toe to your tumbling tunes, however, I would like to humbly request you add the song Remember Dear to your playlist here on Myspace....It is hands down my favorite and I would love to be listening to it as I cross the days off my calendar. Cheers and best wishes!
you guys crashed in my front room a while a back, and left some well minty shaving cream in my bathroom, its good stuff thanks. hope all is well anyway...
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