U.S. Girls Announces London Headline Show at Moth Club
U.S. GIRLS
Announces London Headline Show
Moth Club Added To Upcoming European Tour
Tickets on Sale This Friday 22 September
Latest Album Bless This Mess Out Now
LISTEN HERE
In support of recent album Bless This Mess, U.S. Girls has announced their first headline London show in 5 years. The experimental pop project led by North American multidisciplinary artist Meg Remy, the 5-piece band will headline East London’s Moth Club on Wednesday 8 November with support from Jessica Winter. Tickets go on sale this Friday 22 September at 10AM BST.
Moth Club precedes U.S. Girls’s upcoming European tour which includes a Pitchfork Festival London performance with Sleater-Kinney. A full list of tour dates is below, for more information head HERE.
Released in early 2023, eighth album Bless This Mess is a dynamic suite of dexterous melodies and a nuanced artistic response to the complexities of motherhood, crafted in tandem with the conception and birth of Remy’s twin boys. It expands the sonic and thematic palette of U.S. Girls, fusing the muses of funk, mythology, and the radical disorientation of joy into an electric tapestry of anthems, aches, and awakenings. Bless This Mess features disco masterpiece ‘Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo),’ slow jam gem ‘Futures Bet,’ diva-era ballad ‘Bless This Mess,’ and summer synth anthem ‘So Typically Now.’
8 November – LONDON, UK, Moth Club **NEW SHOW**
10 November – LONDON, UK, The Roundhouse (Pitchfork Music Festival)^
12 November – KORTRIJK, BELGIUM, Sonic City Festival
13 November – PARIS, FRANCE, Petit Bain
14 November – COLOGNE, GERMANY, Bumann & Sohn
15 November – AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, Tolhuisten
^ w/ Sleater-Kinney
“Avant-pop provocateur.” – Rolling Stone
“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
Bless This Mess Out Now
STREAM/BUY HERE
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 on 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, leading her to be 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.