U.S. Girls, the experimental pop project of North American multidisciplinary artist Meg Remy, releases its first-ever live album entitled Lives digitally. The album showcases the last five years on stage non-chronologically. The musicians on this 15-song album represent three distinct versions of the U.S. Girls live band; the “Poem Band,” a jam-oriented outsider jazz-funk unit that often stretched Remy’s deep-pocketed groovers and plastic soul ballads out the nether-regions of abstraction, the “Heavy Light Band,” which reigned in...
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U.S. Girls – the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy – has shared a brand new song ‘So Typically Now’ and a self-directed official companion video. A sleek widescreen synth anthem that punctures the real estate bubble, ‘So Typically Now’ features powerhouse backing vocalist Kyle Kidd and is the first taste of new U.S. Girls music since the release of Christmas song ‘Santa Stay Home’ and the Polaris Prize-shortlisted album Heavy Light....
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Heavy Light, the seventh album by U.S. Girls is out now. The protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy, Heavy Light recounts personal narratives to create a deeply introspective about-face. The songs are an inquest into the melancholy flavour of hindsight, both personal and cultural. Remy makes this notion formally explicit with the inclusion of three re-worked, previously released songs: ‘Statehouse (It’s A Man’s World)’, ‘Red Ford Radio’, and ‘Overtime’. Remy casts herself as lead voice among a...
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Check out the second single from U.S. Girls (Meg Remy) forthcoming album Heavy Light, out 6 March. ‘4 American Dollars‘ is an anthem, one that turns inward and recounts deeply personal narratives. It comes with a technicolour video directed by Emily Pelstring and Remy with VFX by Beyond Wonderland Films. Preorder Heavy Light here.
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Very excited to announce the return of U.S. Girls. The seventh album by the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy, will be released on Friday 6 March entitled Heavy Light. While Remy has been widely acclaimed for a panoply of closely observed character studies, on Heavy Light she turns inward, recounting personal narratives to create a deeply introspective about-face. The songs are an inquest into the melancholy flavour of hindsight, both personal and cultural. Remy makes this notion formally explicit...
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Hear Tune-Yards and U.S. Girls remix each other’s songs digitally ahead of their joint 4AD tour kicking off in Los Angeles on October 18. The culmination celebration will also feature a DJ set by Lizzie Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance. A limited edition 7” will be for sale exclusively on the tour. On October 16, Tune-Yards and U.S. Girls will discuss the relationship between content creation and artmaking as a...
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Following the release of her latest album In A Poem Unlimited earlier this year, U.S. Girls (aka Meg Remy) has shared two remixes of ‘Rosebud’ by French producers Domenico Torti and Glasses. Listen below! Parisian producer, remixer and songwriter, Domenico Torti, has released remixes for Daft Punk, Christine and the Queens, Justice, En Vogue, Glass Animals, London Grammar, Cassius and more recently, Lenny Kravitz. Glasses is a newcomer on the French scene, and recently...
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Multi-disciplinary Toronto artist Meg Remy has released her sixth full-length album as U.S. Girls, In a Poem Unlimited. In a Poem Unlimited was brought to life by an impressive body of talent – including Toronto collective The Cosmic Range and long-time collaborators Max Turnbull and Louis Percival. The album features dark meditations reflecting charged atmospheres that precede and follow acts of violence. Many of the songs are character studies of...
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Multi-disciplinary Toronto artist Meg Remy has released a fourth new U.S. Girls single, ‘Rosebud’, taken from her forthcoming album, In a Poem Unlimited, out Friday 16 February. Watch the clip below! A breathless synth anthem written by the legendary Rich Morel with Remy, ‘Rosebud’’s stunning accompanying video was directed by Alex Kingsmill, edited by Remy and stars Max Turnbull. In a Poem Unlimited, the sixth full-length album by U.S. Girls is...
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2017 marks a decade of U.S. Girls. The multi-disciplinary artist, Meg Remy announces the release of her sixth studio album, In a Poem Unlimited, out Friday 16 February. Watch the video to new single ‘Velvet 4 Sale’ below! In a Poem Unlimited was tracked in collaboration with Toronto-based instrumental collective the Cosmic Range, and features arrangements by long-time contributors Maxmilian Turnball and Louis Percival. Following ‘Mad As Hell’, the album opener ‘Velvet 4 Sale’ concerns...
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Meg Remy, the unapologetic pop revisionist, known as U.S. Girls, has just dropped a new video for her song ‘Mad As Hell’. Directed by Remy and Emily Pelstring, the video pieces together historic patriotic and military imagery. Watch it below! The wall-of-sound arrangement and throbbing disco beat along with Remy’s radiant voice make a candy-coated Trojan horse for her powerful call to action for pacifism and impassioned critique of military...
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