United Nations - 2010 Never Mind The Bombing, Here's Your Six Figures

Band : United Nations

Album : Never Mind The Bombing, Here's Your Six Figures
Release Year : 2010
Genre : Screamo / Power Violance / Experimental

Tracklist : 

01. Pity Animal
02. O You Bright & Risen Angels
03. Communication Letdown
04. Never Mind The Bombing, Here's Your Six
Figures

 

During the promotion of the self-proclaimed emo-power-violence band United Nations in 2008, confusion nearly outweighed anticipation. If you asked ten people that knew of United Nations the question, ‘what members were actually in the band,’ you would probably get eight or so different responses. Even today, apart from Geoff Rickly, the members remain somewhat cloudy. However, if there is one certainty surrounding United Nations, it is the fact they love pissing off people in high places. Their self-titled album featured the controversial altercation to the Beatles album, Abbey Road, while Never Mind the Bombings Here’s Your Six Figures blatantly rips off the cover art of the Sex Pistol’s Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols. That claim is only strengthened by their band name, which caused multiple band related webpages to be deleted. Past that, they are just attempting to melt faces and play some tunes for old times sake, and United Nations do that damn well.

Before getting into the thick of it, taking care of housekeeping issues first, in just under twelve minutes, Never Mind the Bombings Here’s Your Six Figures sure goes by rather slowly, and that is a perk. However, do not be fooled by its shortened length, as the lasting impression is equal if not greater. United Nation’s cutthroat approach remains the same, but with a little more pop in each riff and fill, and I will be damned if Ben Koller is NOT the drummer on this album. Koller is known for brilliantly brutal drum fills and mind-blowing combinations while keeping pace without a hint of sloppiness, all of which is reflected on this album. This is most notably found on “Pity Animal” and “Never Mind the Bombings, Here’s Your Six Figures,” whom are the beneficiaries of such superb drumming. Elsewhere, Rickly showcases why he makes Thursday so unique with his melodic tendencies in “O You Bright & Risen Angel,” which is probably the most consistent and listener friendly track. In other areas, there are minor flaws, such as a rather low vocal mix and unintelligible lyrics at times, but this album was intended for headbanging, not singing. Even so, the overall clarity is much clearer and less gritty, per se, than United Nations.

In all honesty, there are not enough discernable differences to keep fans from the last album away from Never Mind the Bombings Here’s Your Six Figures. After all, United Nations are not trying to create this side project in hopes to reinvent a genre, rather relive it with their owns ideas. The bottom line is that United Nations are as rad as ever and likely won’t stop in the near future; so keep ‘em coming gentlemen. 

 

 

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United Nations - 2008 Self Titled

Band : United Nations

Album : Self Titled
Release Year : 2008
Genre : Screamo / Power Violance / Experimental

Tracklist : 

01. The Spinning Heart of the Yo-Yo Lobby
02. Resolution #9
03. No Sympathy For A Sinking Ship
04. The Shape of Punk That Never Came
05. My Cold War
06. Model UN
07. Filmed In Front of A Live Studio Audience
08. Revolutions In Graphic Design
09. I Keep Living The Same Day
10. Subliminal Testing
11. Say Goodbye to General Figment of the USS Imagination

 

United Nations is an experimental punk supergroup whose roots go back to at least 2005 formed by Geoff Rickly, the singer/lyricist of the band Thursday.
Other artists rumored to be involved in the project most noteably include Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw/Head Automatica fame along with Ben Koller of Converge. A handful of other names have also been mentioned: Chree (The Number Twelve Looks Like You), Eric Cooper (Kiss It Goodbye) Lukas Previn (Acid Tiger) Tom Keeley (Thursday) Jonah Bayer (The Lovekill).

Since Rickly is the only member whose primary band is currently not under contract, his name is the only one that can legally appear in press materials. Press photos of the band released in 2008 depict four people wearing Ronald Reagan masks, believed to be because of this reason. The only exception to this being when Daryl breifly mentioned being involved in the project to Punk News in 2005. Baring all this in mind, the official line-up is not well known.
The bands debut record entiled United Nations was released in September 2008 amid much controversy surrounding the original artwork and also the bands name.
Before its release, stores refused to sell the band’s debut self-titled album because of copyright issues. As a result, only 1,000 copies were made with the controversial cover, and later copies were made with an alternative cover. The one thousand original copies were sold exclusively through the band and Eyeball Records.

The actual international organization, United Nations, for which the band is named after, discovered that a musical group had formed under the name of United Nations, and ordered Facebook to remove their official page. After deleting their page, Facebook informed the band about the removal and also stated, “The use of the name ‘United Nations’ by the Band and the use of its Logo which resembles the UN emblem has not been authorized and violates international and United States laws…” The band’s record label comically responded the situation stating, “The United Nations, an international organization of some kind, has been taking issue with the band that shares it’s name. Who had the name first remains open to debate, but the problem exists nonetheless.”Their label also hinted at the possibility of no longer being able to release their debut album. In December 2008, a little over a month after the band’s Facebook was deleted, their MySpace page was also deleted. And fuck off!!!

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