Toward, by The Unit Ama

Toward

by The Unit Ama

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stephenhutchings I'd never heard The Unit Ama until I saw them last night. WSR Joe told me he's known them for years and years. It's hard to state how good this record is. Parts of it are just beautiful.

timineson a seriously very good record. love it.

damageisdead The sound of all your favourite bands you know and don't know pummeled together into a killer record. Favorite track: Collector.

eldudowski there's an axis of excellence, swinging quiet and wide under the faff and fuckery of default culture, diligent and defiant, hiding in plain sight, homegrown, DIY, waiting to light you up like lightning that rises to strike. this is simply revelatory music, and I'm so glad to have found it. Favorite track: Collector.

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	1.	Sycamore 04:51
	2.	Stirrup 05:38
	3.	Observe Yourself 03:41
	4.	Body Keeps The Score 05:55
	5.	Collector 05:53
	6.	Mary 04:31
	7.	The Folding Man 05:13
	8.	New Page 04:26

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The Unit Ama take their time. They act on their own terms.

This applies to their music and their work-rate. Two albums and a handful of singles in twenty years. Sporadic gigs. No endless Bandcamp messages or weekly mailing list updates. Rare missions outside their native north-east.

And then…

Toward is their second studio album and their second Gringo release. It’s not their ‘pandemic’ album but does see the band considering the important things: post-traumatic growth, insight through experience. Utilising the past to navigate towards a meaningful future.

Toward was self-produced and will probably get tagged as post-hardcore which is fair enough. But it’s also informed by post-punk, jazz and folk, and by working closely together for two decades. The Unit Ama play in other incarnations that inform their music and the way they dismantle expectations of the rock trio. There’s as much Richard Thompson as Minutemen.

Toward takes the exploratory, explosive sound of their debut and adds twenty years of living and listening. Toward is eight tracks that are thoughtful and intricate without losing any impact. This is gut music as much as it is head music. The Unit Ama never let their abilities get in the way of their instincts and Toward is full of surging urgency and roaring anxiety. But there are moments of brooding calm too, and a song – Mary – that could be stripped down and sold as a folk ballad.

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released May 5, 2023

Recorded and mixed by Sam Grant at Blank Studios, Newcastle

Mastered by Stephen Kerrison at Tall Trees Audio Mastering, Liverpool, UK

Design by David Hand

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