U.S. Girls ‘Bless This Mess’ Embraces Materiality, Creativity, and Dance Grooves
In Bless This Mess, U.S. Girls identify funk and R&B grooves as conduits for the very pulse of life. It’s brilliantly conceived and executed.
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‘Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono’ Is a Highly Enjoyable Tribute
Helmed by Ben Gibbard Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono is a highly enjoyable tribute to one of music’s most unfairly maligned artists. It reframes the songs in exciting ways.
The 80 Best Albums of 2015
Travel back five years ago when the release calendar was rife with stellar albums. 2015 offered such an embarrassment of musical riches, that we selected 80 albums as best of the year.
U.S. Girls Reckons With Being a Breakout Indie Star on ‘Heavy Light’
Meghan Remy's experimental pop project U.S. Girls ventures into more mainstream territory to mixed results on Heavy Light.
The 10 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2018
Indie rock represents a spirit that's found where folk songsters and punk rockers come together to dialogue about what they're fed up with in mainstream culture.
U.S. Girls Listen to the Sinister Voice in All of Us on ‘A Poem Unlimited’
Her melodramatics are in the service of the material. We may be living in hell. Women in particular may be living in a worse hell than men. But as John Paul Sartre taught us long ago, hell is other people.
U.S. Girls – “Mad As Hell” (Singles Going Steady)
"Mad As Hell" is a stark reminder that some aspects of the US haven’t changed much, no matter the resolution and color vibrancy of our current tech.
U.S. Girls – “New Age Thriller” (Singles Going Steady)
Cryptic, moody, and possessed by a nearly Lynchian sense of unease, "New Age Thriller" is a demented avant-pop vignette.
U.S. Girls – “Navy & Cream” (Singles Going Steady)
The woozy chords at the heart of “Navy & Cream” sound like Wham’s “Everything She Wants” at half speed.
U.S. Girls – “Window Shades” (video) (Singles Going Steady)
U.S. Girls' debut Half Free releases later this month. Meanwhile, their new single is constructed around a beat from Gloria Ann Taylor's disco song "Love Is a Hurting Thing".