Geoffrey William Rickly is an American musician. He is best known for being the former lead singer and songwriter of Thursday, an American rock band from New Brunswick and is currently fronting United Nations, an experimental grindcore collaboration. As a solo artist, "he manages to go even further into his own realm of lyrical prose and wandering stories, and that's where his strength lies. ...The stories he tells continue to wrack nerves with the emotional pull and musical inertia"