U.S. Girls’ New Album ‘Bless This Mess’ Out Now
U.S Girls
New Album Bless This Mess Out Now
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Featuring Recent Singles ‘Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)’, ‘Futures Bet’, ‘So Typically Now’ & ‘Bless This Mess’
East Coast North American Tour Begins This April
“Avant-pop provocateur.” – Rolling Stone
“Anthemic.” – Brooklyn Vegan
“Rapturous pop music with a vision of better futures in mind.” – Record Collector’s Album of the Month ****
“Fiery critiques of modern America under the guise of irresistible earworms.” – Loud and Quiet’s Album of the Month
“The sheer lambent wonder of the grooves and hooks always keeps you rapt.” – The Wire
“A dizzying strut through steamy, electro disco and clavinet driven soul that spurs on funk, screams for a return to the dancefloor.” – DJ Mag
As Remy’s body changed throughout the pregnancy, so did her voice; her diaphragm lost breathing room, adjusting to the growing lives inside. Many takes on Bless This Mess were tracked with the babies in utero, or in her arms. (She even samples her breast pump on the album’s poetic closing cut, “Pump”). The resulting performances are suffused by the physicality of this journey: more blood, more feelings, the interwoven wonders, and wounds of procreation.
The ten songs on Bless This Mess were pieced together stem by stem with a vast cast of collaborators (Alex Frankel of Holy Ghost!, Marker Starling, Ryland Blackinton of Cobra Starship, Basia Bulat, Roger Manning Jr. of Jellyfish and Beck) and audio engineers (Neal H Pogue, Ken Sluiter, Steve Chahley, Maximilian Turnbull). Long-time collaborator, husband, and co-parent Turnbull played a key role facilitating these fluid muses. The production throughout is exquisite, warm, and wood-panelled, framing the voice, keys, bass, and rhythms in heightened textural harmony.
U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess
U.S. Girls will play an east coast North American tour starting on 13 April in Montreal and will wrap with two nights at Velvet Underground in Remy’s hometown Toronto. A full list of tour dates is below and ticket information found here.
13 April – MONTREAL, QC, CANADA, Centre PHI
14 April – BOSTON, MA, USA, The Sinclair
15 April – PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA, The Foundry
17 April – BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Elsewhere
18 April – WASHINGTON, DC, USA, Union Stage
21 April – CHICAGO, IL, USA, Lincoln Hall
27 April – TORONTO, ON, CANADA, Velvet Underground
28 April – TORONTO, ON, CANADA, Velvet Underground
All shows w/ Jane Inc.
Originally from Illinois, Meg Remy is established as one of the most acclaimed songwriters and performers to emerge from Toronto’s eclectic underground music scene where she currently lives. As the creative force behind the musical entity U.S. Girls, her celebrated discography spans 15 years from early experimental works released on the Siltbreeze label, and includes three Polaris Prize shortlisted albums released by 4AD: Half Free (2015), In A Poem Unlimited (2018), and Heavy Light (2020). All three albums also garnered Juno nominations for Best Alternative Album. Meg has toured extensively through Europe and North America, establishing a reputation for politically astute commentary and theatrical performances with her extended U.S. Girls band, named the best live act of 2018 by Paste Magazine. During this time Remy has maintained a visual arts practice, exhibited collage work and directed several music videos and other video art works including her short film Woman’s Advocate (2014), in which she also performed. Recently Remy published her first book, a memoir called Begin By Telling (2021). As a platform and persona, U.S. Girls operates on a uniquely out-of-time wavelength, alternately wronged and rueful, classic but contemporary, bruised vignettes of poetic Americana through a feminist lens. Bless This Mess marks both a divergence from and deepening of Remy’s songbook, more at peace with her restless truths and moods.
