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Received the the bundle today with the demos. Got to listen to album of the year demos and Novena on nocturn. sounds great! ill get to check out the rest tomorrow

ahahaha thats awesome. i was about to post that picture here. i would've got the new album and volta. but my wallet went broke from so many vinyl purchases in the last month.

Got mine today just in time for the album release. Album sounds awesome! still need to listen to the 7 inch. The poster book is also great!

Thats exactly how i felt! After listening to I Shot an Arrow,Big Dark Love, and Dream in red.I felt it was going to be another weird record.Which i love! I really dig it when they try something new

Looks and sounds awesome

Such an awesome and sexy release.Plus the music is so good!

Got mine today! So good And im all the way down in orlando florida.Was not expecting to get so soon.Knowing it was international.

If they press the The Fountain on vinyl i will throw all my monies at them.Best sound track ever!

Holy Fuck! got another variant! I never buy multiple copies mainly because i cant afford it. All the copies Ive got from Mondo except one (Drive) i bought that copy from Amazon but i also ended up getting the variant.Idk how their system works but so far im ok with it.Im sure when my luck runs out i wont be happy with the way they do things. Looks good tho. Granted out of all the releases they have released i only purchased 4 but I only buy what i know ill listen to.

Can i get the bonus track and the alternate ending of music for changing parties? I got the boxset.and d/l the digital version.No bonus or alternate version

Ive read multiple interviews with him stating his love for Godspeed and a silver mt zion. He even used one of their song titles in the lyrics for the War All the Time album.

Let’s talk about the evolution of United Nations. It started as more of a satirical project and seems to have evolved into something more serious. What does it mean to you at this moment in time? The first idea was to be a Gravity Records kind of band, like, ‘We should just sound like Orchid or Reversal of Man, and that’s it.’ And once we started working on it the first time, I was talking to James Cauty from the KLF… He did the art for the first record and was like, ‘You know, this is going to get banned, and you’re going to get sued, so if anybody asks, I’m going to say you stole the images from me.’ I was like, ‘Well that’s pretty punk. I like that.’ We were also talking about reading The Illuminatus! Trilogy as kids. It’s kinda a satire of politics, conspiracy theories, and how ridiculous the whole thing is. So we talked about putting out the most political record that actually has no message. Like none; it’s just folding in on itself, a joke of a joke of a joke. That’s what the first record was. And when we got to Never Mind the Bombings…, we wrote four songs we were actually really proud of, and got another great artist, Ben Frost, to do the cover. It was still satirical, but it was also a little more serious and trying to say a few things, trying to criticize punk culture for being as capitalistic as everything it pretends to be against. It’s just as much about ‘coming to buy our T-shirts’ as anything else. This record is more developed and mature because we decided that the best form of critique isn’t political or punk critique; it’s critiquing ourselves. So the record is a lot more personal—a lists of all the ways we’ve failed all the things we once believed in, and accepting the status quo of how band things have gotten. It’s sort of examining our own level of privilege. The box set is supposed to be a fake mythology of the band. The cassette is the first demo—the band at its most basic—then there’s the two 7-inches, and the 10-inch is where we get into our pretentious phase of trying to sound like Godspeed [You! Black Emperor]… Depending on the groove you land on, it has two different endings. It’s like a fork in the road, and the needle ends up in one or the other.

i agree. def reading too much into it. "This record is more developed and mature because we decided that the best form of critique isn’t political or punk critique; it’s critiquing ourselves. So the record is a lot more personal—a lists of all the ways we’ve failed all the things we once believed in, and accepting the status quo of how band things have gotten. It’s sort of examining our own level of privilege. The box set is supposed to be a fake mythology of the band. The cassette is the first demo—the band at its most basic—then there’s the two 7-inches, and the 10-inch is where we get into our pretentious phase of trying to sound like Godspeed [You! Black Emperor]… Depending on the groove you land on, it has two different endings. It’s like a fork in the road, and the needle ends up in one or the other." That qoute was taken from his other interview he did the other week.Has even more information than the pitchfork interview Here's the rest of it(pretty lengthy but really interesting) http://www.self-titl...band-and-label/

I think its a more positive thing judging from this interview he had with Selftitled Mag "This record is more developed and mature because we decided that the best form of critique isn’t political or punk critique; it’s critiquing ourselves. So the record is a lot more personal—a lists of all the ways we’ve failed all the things we once believed in, and accepting the status quo of how band things have gotten. It’s sort of examining our own level of privilege. The box set is supposed to be a fake mythology of the band. The cassette is the first demo—the band at its most basic—then there’s the two 7-inches, and the 10-inch is where we get into our pretentious phase of trying to sound like Godspeed [You! Black Emperor]… Depending on the groove you land on, it has two different endings. It’s like a fork in the road, and the needle ends up in one or the other." That qoute was taken from his other interview he did yesterday.Has even more information than the pitchfork interview Here's the rest of it(pretty lengthy but really interesting) http://www.self-titledmag.com/2014/07/02/interview-geoff-rickly-on-modern-art-united-nations-thursdays-abrupt-split-and-the-launch-of-his-new-band-and-label/

Where was that in the interview? or was this another interview. Idk how serious to take that.Ive read lots of interviews with him and he stated before that Godpseed and Silver mt. zion are one of his favorite bands