U.S. Girls Extends 2023 Tour
U.S. Girls
Extends 2023 Tour With First LA & London Shows Since 2018
Latest Album Bless This Mess Out Now
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“Upbeat and provocative… Between Robyn and Kylie Minogue.” – New York Times
“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 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’.
Bless This Mess is available digitally, on CD and on black and opaque red vinyl, with the latter exclusively available from the 4AD webstore and independent retailers outside of USA. The vinyl features an interactive die cut sleeve that reveals an exclusive full version of the cover’s imagery.
U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess
April 27 – TORONTO, ON, CANADA, Velvet Underground *
April 28 – TORONTO, ON, CANADA, Velvet Underground *
Aug 2 – BUFFALO, NY, Iron Works
Aug 3 – AMHERST, MA, The Drake
Sept 7 – LOS ANGELES, CA, Teragram Ballroom ~
Sept 9 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Independent ~
Sept 12 – PORTLAND, OR, Mississippi Studios ~
Sept 13 – SEATTLE, WA, Neumos ~
Sept 16 – VANCOUVER, BC, Hollywood Theater ~
Sept 18 – CALGARY, AB, Commonwealth Bar & Stage ~
Sept 19 – EDMONTON, AB, The Starlite Room ~
Nov 10 – LONDON, UK, Pitchfork Music Festival – Roundhouse ^
* w/ Jane Inc.
^ w/ Sleater-Kinney
~ w/ Dorothea Paas
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.