United States of Mind (album)

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

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United States of Mind

Studio album by Covenant

Released

March 2, 2000

Genre

Synthpop, electronic music

Length

57:24

Label

21st Circuitry

Professional reviews

All Music Guide link

Covenant chronology

Europa
(1998)

United States of Mind
(2000)

Northern Light
(2002)

1 Overview
2 Track listing
3 Travelogue
4 Covers
5 References

[edit] 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".

[edit] 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″")