If it ain’t Baroque… : “Instant Everything, Constant Nothing” by UNTIED STATES
Untied States (“un-tied” states) is the musical creation of two childhood friends from Atlanta, GA. Colin Arnstein and Skip Engelbrecht dropped their first release, Bird of the Blood Feather, as a duo in 2003. That EP was followed up by the two full-lengths, Ineffable, by Design (2004) and Retail Detail (2006). Although all three of them were self-recorded/self-released efforts, the latter two found the duo collaborating with a plethora of rotating additional musicians. The group spun through various incarnations for their live performances until connecting with Darren Tablan in 2001. With Tablan operating as an engineer/keyboardist/sound-sample manipulator, US released the 7″, Bye Bye Bi-Polar (b/w These Dead Birds) and was subsequently signed to Distille records. With the addition of drummer Satchell Mallon, Untied States has now released their first large studio recording, Instant Everything, Constant Nothing.
I hadn’t heard the group’s previous releases and I nearly didn’t hear this new one, either. I had already received an email about the band from Distile, but I paid it little mind. We receive so many emails these days that I can’t focus on them all and most have little to no connection to anything that we would even be slightly interested in dealing with. I think that I had even given a quick listen to an album link for IECN but, for whatever reason, I wasn’t immediately impressed and instantly went back to what I was doing. Maybe I’m just like a toddler and need pictures to get my attention because, after receiving the following video of the guys performing live for the WRAS | indieATL music series, they had captured my full attention. (more…)
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