Released March 2, 2000 Artist Covenant Label Dependent Records | Length 57:24 Release date 2 March 2000 Genre Electropop | |
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United States of Mind
(2000) Synergy Live in Europe
(2002) Similar Covenant albums, Electropop albums | ||
Covenant like tears in rain
United States of Mind is Covenant's fourth full-length album, released in March 2000. Travelogue was a bonus disc for United States of Mind. The track "You Can Make Your Own Music" is a silent track, in reference to John Cage's song "4′33″". "Like Tears in Rain" was re-recorded in German and released as the single "Der Leiermann", which also included the original version.
Contents
Covenant humility from the album united states of mind
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". The track "You can make your own music" is a reference to the John Cage track 4'33".
Track listing
All lyrics written by Joakim Montelius, except where noted; all music composed by Eskil Simonsson.
Covers
Songs
1Like Tears in Rain5:51
2No Man’s Land5:07
3Afterhours5:02