With their 3rd full-length release in 18 months, These United States surrender themselves to unbridled rock & roll exuberance: ringing guitars, thundering drums, desperate yearning bordering on hope. Everything Touches Everything came together the week of January 20th, 2009, as 4 million new friends descended on the city of Washington, DC (one of two places, with Lexington, KY, the band calls home). Laughter, belief, chaos, history, frigid cold wild mercury winter morning sunshine – it was a good place to be making music.

By turns larger-than-life & disarmingly intimate, this is 42 minutes of folk in the truest sense – a record of the moment, of the cultural & emotional forces that animate everyday existence somewhere down below the headlines. (But never apart from them. Bandleader Jesse Elliott had two different albums in mind; he let the November election decide which one the group would record.)

“I Want You To Keep Everything” | download

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Video directed by the amazing Sarahana (person behind Hooves on the Turf). Song belongs to These United States’ 2008 release Crimes.

“Honor Amongst Thieves” | download

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Sarahana:

“In addition to live and candid shots, it features a few crafty scenes of theft we shot in Park Slope, Brooklyn, before their show at Union Hall that night.”

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