" [U.S.E.'s] self-titled debut is a blues-obliterating serum shot to your root chakra. Placing papaya-sweet, rococo-pop melodies and gorgeous vocodered vocals into uplifting French house rizzims, USE can turn the surliest grouches into incurable optimists. All the labels that passed on this disc will feel silly when USE get their own TV show in 2005."

"United State of Electronica simultaneously incorporate the best (pounding beat, tight rhythm, chorus as anthem) and the worst (overused sounds, the vocoder, cheesy lyrics) of electronic music with vocals; this sounds like a recipe for disaster, and really it should be. Eiffel 65's huge crossover hit 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' and Daft Punk come immediately to mind. Not only that, U.S.E. is more than halfway to Haddaway in sound. There are two things that U.S.E. possess that forgive any cheeky irony and the lack of originality: contagious hooks and pure energetic fun.
It should be noted that in addition to those synths, U.S.E. employs real drums, bass guitar, and electric guitars -- the tools of the rock band. Their approach is similar to indie pop bands -- solid melody, big hooks, and stellar arrangements. "

"Finally, rock music you can dance to. Not since Debby Harry was a cute little lass has there been so much rock music to dance to.
United State of Electronica Hometown: Seattle, Sound: Warm synth-rock you can cuddle to, Album to get: U.S.E., Rump-Shaker: 'Emerald City', which could be the happiest action-news broadcast on the planet."

"United State of Electronica are a party band, and on their self-titled debut, they pull out all the stops for mindlessly awesome celebratory ambiance: giant, anthemic hooks, a deference to dance before song-to-song variety, shit-for-brains lyrics, some vaguely political obnoxiousness, and, if they're being ironic, a remarkably impenetrable sense of irony. The record pulls no punches: Each track is stuffed with simple and catchy vocal and guitar melodies set against tight, no-frills rhythm sections and a Basement Jaxx-worthy sonic overload in between. And with one big exception, the disc is front-to-back footworthy, never losing a bit of the steam it works up to within its first minute out of the speakers. "

"Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet" meets Discovery- era Daft Punk on this electro pop act's ecstatic debut album."

4 STARS (OUT OF 5)
"The Seattle party-starters write songs in the key of "!". Cheerful without being cheesy, the seven-piece U.S.E combine house music 4/4 euphoria with the exuberance of 70's teen-rampage rock- imagine Daft Punk at a rave with the Ramones."

"The West Coast beatmasters in United State of Electronica have what you need building giddy techno smashes out of vocoder voices, disco beats, stings and Avalanches style soul samples."

"High energy, ultra positive dance tracks... USE eschew irony but gleefully grab Junior Senior songcraft, Daft Punk's Sonics and the B-52's rollicking moxie"