Untied States Interview with Colin Arnstein

Untied States Interview with Colin Arnstein
Interview Conducted on January 19, 2010
by Dimitris Dairis

United StatesUpon the release of their upcoming album "Instant Everything, Constant Nothing", Untied States, gave an interview on Unrated Magazine about the band itself, their sound and influences and their future plans. Colin Arnstein was interviewed, and gave us a clear and honest picture of the band and their conceptions.

Dimitris Dairis: First of all, when was the band formed and how the name "Untied States" came into consideration? What does this name mean to you?

Colin Arnstein: Although Skip (Engelbrecht) and I had been playing together since teenager-dom, we officially formed Untied States in 2003 and did our first EP "Bird of the Blood Feather" as a duo, recording it essentially in my bedroom at the time. As far as the name Untied States, it came about when I happened to look at this odd sixties Styrofoam space helmet that I always jokingly put on at my job at the time. I just read it as Untied States and loved the notion that you could reverse some letters in something so ingrained in your head, and it would have such a different meaning. In that same way, I think it's a good descriptor for what we aim to achieve musically, you know, play with the expected forms a bit and hope to make something novel with the results. It also points to our attempts to be separated-ahem, 'Untied' from a particular musical categorization or narrow box. The name is definitely not a political statement, as one might assume; we leave politics well enough alone.

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