U.S. Girls announces new album ‘Heavy Light’; hear first single ‘Overtime’
U.S. GIRLS
Announces Heavy LightNew Album Out 6 March
Hear First Single ‘Overtime’ usgirls.ffm.to/heavylight
Spring North America Tour & Autumn London Show
The highly anticipated seventh album by U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy, will be released on 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 with the inclusion of three re-worked, previously released songs: ‘Statehouse (It’s A Man’s World)’, ‘Red Ford Radio’, and ‘Overtime’, the latter of which is released today as Heavy Light’s lead single. Its companion video, which stars Andrea Nann of the Dreamwalker Dance Company, was created by Remy.
‘OVERTIME’
Directed by Meg Remy
Heavy Light follows 2018’s internationally critically-acclaimed breakout album In A Poem Unlimited. Recently named one of the best albums of the decade by Pitchfork, it was lauded across the pond by the likes of The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Crack and Q magazine for being Remy’s most accessible record in her then decade-long career. Heavy Light is produced by Remy and was recorded live with 20 session musicians – including E Street Band saxophonist Jake Clemons – in Montreal’s acclaimed Hotel 2 Tango studio. Remy worked with co-writers Basia Bulat and Rich Morel to develop the core of Heavy Light, a set of songs conceived as a balance between orchestral percussion (as richly arranged by percussionist Ed Squires) and the human voice (conducted by Kritty Uranowski). The resulting album finds Remy casting herself as lead voice among a harmonious multitude, the singers of which lend not only their voices, but also share reflections on childhood experiences that are collaged into moving spoken word interludes throughout the album. The album is mixed by long-time collaborators Maximilian ‘Twig’ Turnbull, Steve Chahley and Tony Price. Over 14 months touring Poem, U.S. Girls was presented live as an 8-piece band who incinerated stages with an anachronistic blend of politicized disco pop and aggressive, theatrical improvisation.
Today, U.S. Girls announces a 27-date North American Spring tour kicking off in Detroit in April and a headline London show at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Ahead of the album’s release, the group will perform special underplays in New York City, Toronto and Montreal. Full list of tour dates below, with more to be announced.
Heavy Light is released on 6 March digitally, on CD, standard black vinyl and limited white/lavender marble vinyl. UK customers can pre-order Heavy Light via 4AD, or sign up for early pre-sale access to the U.S. Girls Queen Elizabeth Hall, London show. For further details head here.
U.S. GIRLS – HEAVY LIGHT
4AD 0208
1. 4 American Dollars2. Overtime3. IOU4. Advice To Teenage Self5. State House (It’s A Man’s World)6. Born To Lose7. And Yet It Moves / Y Se Mueve8. The Most Hurtful Thing9. Denise, Don’t Wait10. Woodstock ‘9911. The Color Of Your Childhood Bedroom12. Quiver To The Bomb13. Red Ford Radio
U.S. GIRLS TOUR DATES
15 February – TORONTO, ON, Paradise Theatre **SOLD OUT**16 February – MONTREAL, QC, Le Ministère18 February – NEW YORK, NY, The Dance 4 April – DETROIT, MI, MOCAD5 April – CHICAGO, IL, Lincoln Hall6 April – MADISON, WI, Majestic Theatre7 April – MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Cedar Cultural Center9 April – OMAHA, NE, Slowdown front room10 April – KANSAS CITY, MO, Record Bar12 April – DENVER, CO, Bluebird Theatre13 April – SALT LAKE CITY, UT, Metro Music Hall14 April – BOISE, ID, The Olympic16 April – VANCOUVER, BC, Imperial17 April – SEATTLE, WA, Crocodile18 April – PORTLAND, OR, Mississippi Studios20 April – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, The Independent 21 April – SAN JOSE, CA, The Ritz22 April – LOS ANGELES, CA, Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever24 April – PHOENIX, AZ, Valley Bar25 April – TUCSON, AZ, 191 Toole27 April – AUSTIN, TX, Antone’s 28 April – DALLAS, TX, Club Dada29 April – HOUSTON, TX, Continental Club1 May – MEMPHIS, TX, The Greenroom at Crosstown Arts2 May – NASHVILLE, TN, Exit/In3 May – ASHEVILLE, NC, Grey Eagle5 May – WASHINGTON, DC, U Street6 May – BROOKLYN, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg7 May – BOSTON, MA, Sinclair8 May – PHILADELPHIA, PA, World Café
Live14 October – LONDON, GB, Queen Elizabeth Hall
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