These United States

These United States is the new DC - a wide-eyed amalgamation of psyche- folk and the punk rock ethic, a band of merry pranksters spinning something fiercely, unapologetically positive out of the sinking reality of an empire gone Titanic. At the helm of the lifeboat, Jesse Elliott, gonzo-journalist-turned- troubadour, whose rag-tag States have criss-crossed the continental U.S. and Europe for nearly 300 shows in their first two years of operations, supporting and sharing stages with the likes of Califone (Thrill Jockey), Richard Buckner (Merge), Page France (Suicide Squeeze), Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Polyvinyl), Catfish Haven (Secretly Canadian), Karl Blau (K), Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter (Barsuk), and Georgie James (Saddle Creek). For his project’s debut release, Elliott called upon an old friend – David Strackany, known to the music world as Paleo, author and sole executor of last year’s remarkable Song Diary (365 songs in 365 days, what Paste Magazine called “a streetfight of freakish prolificacy”). The result of this collaboration, A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden, is a 36- minute allegorical whirlwind through time, space, and sound – think Paul Simon narrating an Andrew Bird master-minded break-in of Bowie’s near- infinite Labyrinth – to be released in March 2008. Between them, Elliott and Strackany roped in upwards of 30 DC- and Midwest-based musicians, and the mixing prowess of District stalwarts Chad Clark (Beauty Pill, Smart Went Crazy, producer for Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan) and T.J. Lipple

A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden
Song
Preface: Painless	Listen	License	Buy
First Sight	Listen	License	Buy
Kings and Aces	Listen	License	Buy
The Business	Listen	License	Buy
Jenni Anne	Listen	License	Buy
Diving Boards Pointed at the Sky	Listen	License	Buy
Burn this Bridge	Listen	License	Buy
Sun Is Below & Above	Listen	License	Buy
Remember Dear	Listen	License	Buy
Slow Crows Over	Listen	License	Buy
So High So Low So Wide So Long	Listen	License	Buy
Only the Lonely Devil Knows	Listen	License	Buy

What Lasts
Song
The Great Rivers	Listen	License	Buy
One You Believe	Listen	License	Buy
What Do You Want With My Heart?	Listen	License	Buy
Dug Him in the Dirt	Listen	License	Buy
Nobody Can Tell	Listen	License	Buy
Just This	Listen	License	Buy
Life&Death She&I	Listen	License	Buy
Ever Make You Mine	Listen	License	Buy
Water & Wheat	Listen	License	Buy
What Lasts	Listen	License	Buy

Crimes - Instrumentals
Song
Six Fast Bullets (Five Complaints)	Listen	License	Buy
West Won	Listen	License	Buy
Heaven Can Wait	Listen	License	Buy
When You're Traveling at the Speed of Light	Listen	License	Buy
Get Yourself Home (In Search of the Mistres Whose Kisse	Listen	License	Buy
Study The Moon	Listen	License	Buy
Susie at the Seashore	Listen	License	Buy
Those Low Country Girls	Listen	License	Buy
Old John Chapman Takes a Good Long Walk	Listen	License	Buy
Pleasure and Pain and Pride and Me	Listen	License	Buy
Honor Amongst Thieves	Listen	License	Buy
We Go Down to That Corner	Listen	License	Buy

Everything Touches Everything - Instrumentals
Song
I Want You To Keep Everything	Listen	License	Buy
Everything Touches Everything	Listen	License	Buy
The Important Thing	Listen	License	Buy
The Secret Door	Listen	License	Buy
I'm Gonna Assemble A City	Listen	License	Buy
Good Night Wish	Listen	License	Buy
Night & The Revolution	Listen	License	Buy
End	Listen	License	Buy
Will It Ever	Listen	License	Buy
Good Bones	Listen	License	Buy
Conquest & Consequence	Listen	License	Buy

What Lasts - NYC Session
Song
Damned and Redeemed		Listen	License	Buy