United States of Mind (album)

"United States of Mind" is Covenant's fourth full-length album, released in March, 2000.

Infobox Album
Name = United States of Mind
Type = studio
Artist = Covenant


Released = March 2, 2000
Recorded =
Genre = Synthpop, electronic music
Length = 57:24
Label = 21st Circuitry
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kvfixqtkldde link]
Last album = "Europa" (1998)
This album = "United States of Mind" (2000)
Next album = "Northern Light" (2002)

Overview

The album's content finds the band united in a much more mainstream state of mind than any of their previous outings. For the most part, Covenant's typically harsh, staticky blasts of audio have been significantly smoothened out, flirting with the simple repetition of dance-pop on tracks with minimal lyrical content, and when present, lyrics often portray much more personal themes — with greater ambiguity — compared to the hostile manifestos of mankind's reality and the science fiction themes that pervade their earlier works. Some of the lyrics appear to be about reaching stardom, and the band even overflows with thanks to their fans on the liner notes. Sampled clips of dialogue, also usual on the early works, have been shed entirely save for the beginning of the gloom-bashing track "Humility", aurally reminiscent of Depeche Mode's "To Have and to Hold".

Track listing

# "Like Tears in Rain" – 5:51
# "No Man's Land" – 5:06
# "Afterhours" – 5:02
# "Helicopter" – 5:44
# "Tour de Force" – 4:46
# "Unforgiven" – 4:43
# "Humility" – 4:35
# "Dead Stars" (Version) – 4:50
# "One World One Sky" – 5:01
# "Still Life" – 6:49
# "You Can Make Your Own Music" – 4:33 (a silent track, in reference to John Cage's song "4′33″")

Travelogue

"Travelogue" was a bonus disc for "United States of Mind". The tracklist is as follows:
#Fuzzy Logic - 7:15
#Humility v2 - 5:08
#Alva Myrdal - 5:18

Covers

In 2006 the U.S. Gothic Neo-Medieval/Neofolk band Unto Ashes covered "One World One Sky" on their album "Songs For A Widow". [http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=PROMO28 Songs For a Widow 5/10 2008] ]

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