Her voice really reminds me of stefani on mad as hell
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cFnewlPpzI
dopest
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 10 February 2018 05:01 (six years ago) link
that grew on me over its length. helps that i like finches and avians in general
it really is going to be her funk album - unless they've all been funky and i've not noticed until now
the guy in the video is her husband which is nice (apparently he's a musician of localised renown himself)
― imago, Saturday, 10 February 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
like this album and this piece https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/2/12/17003518/u-s-girls-meg-remy-in-a-poem-unlimited-profile
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
that's quite a title
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
headline aside the album is great
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing this. She reminds me of Solex, especially on sororal feelings - never a bad thing
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Maybe my favourite band going rn? idk anymore I love this music so much
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
new album's great
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 04:57 (six years ago) link
totally. as good a place to hop into the U.S. Girls thing as any other album, for sure.
― mr.raffles, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 05:38 (six years ago) link
Raffles and fgti otm
L-o-v-e-r is such a great bad romance track. Love the theme of vouching for your sensitivity in a cold relationship
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
gave this a first listen while coming in to work. This is good.
― silverfish, Friday, 16 February 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
hooooly shit 'incidental boogie'!!!
― imago, Friday, 16 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
Yeah this album is great
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 February 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
on a par with Half Free but it's a good par
'poem' is another excellent non-single
― imago, Friday, 16 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
Mad As Hell (aka MAH), Rosebud, Incidental Boogie are excellent. The other singles are pretty nifty too.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 February 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
Mad As Hell is so great!
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 17 February 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
I'm loving the angry swirl of this record.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 February 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
hell yeh this rules
― nxd, Saturday, 17 February 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
I love "Half Free"'s A-side more than any other record ever, prob
Not meant to detract from either artist in saying this, but I've always been annoyed that the sound-world that Solex proposed wasn't further explored by other artists subsequently, and to my ears US Girls are exploring and expanding that world
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
Fgti, I mentioned solex earlier - great minds ;-)
She's hard to beat tho and underrated but US Girls are definitely carrying that torch
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Nothing here quite as incredible as Woman's Work but then I think that was my #1 in the 2015 traxpoll
― imago, Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
Incidental Boogie definitely from the same sound-world mind you
― imago, Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
M.A.H. is awesome. I like the whole record, need to listen more. I sort of miss her scabrous noise days, but it's also cool that she's done a whole range of things since then.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link
Also 2nd/3rd the otms about Solex.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
Might have heard part of the last album but this is the first new thing i’ve bought in forever without really knowing what it would sound like. Seems great so far.
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
(Just realized I have used the word scabrous twice in this thread, which is probably overselling her scabrousness. But she was pretty murky, kind of industrial. I love the new stuff too.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
The timbre of her voice on this record in particular reminds me a lot of mid-90s Kylie.
― monotony, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 06:10 (six years ago) link
i've been thinking the exact same thing, Will!
― joshywinty (josh), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 06:13 (six years ago) link
Yeah, spot on. Put this on and after a few songs my girlfriend asked "uh...are you listening to a Kylie Minogue album?"
― triggercut, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 07:22 (six years ago) link
it hadn't occurred to me but she really does sound so much like Kylie
this album is excellent & so is her band. i was surprised to learn that Rage of Plastic and Time are both covers, they're so thoroughly transformed. Time is especially a highlight
here are the originals:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH39LembpDQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1L-YQK756g
― ufo, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
Kylie, yes, but Olivia Newton-John more.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
alfred otm. also this record is glorious
― Maconie Youth (NickB), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
I'm obsessed with Mad As Hell at the moment. It kind of reminds of Don't Talk To Me About Love by Altered Images which is one of my favourite songs ever. The rest of the album is slowly growing on me.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
Loved the last album.But this one?
The singles were coming out, and I wasn't completely convinced, but...Hearing them, partnered with "Incidental Boogie", "L-Over", etc etc + the ultra-fantastic "Rage of Plastics"... makes this album feel like a goddamn subtle(ish) self-possessed wonder.
Playing it over and over again.
― mr.raffles, Thursday, 22 February 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I played the shit out of Half Free and was lukewarm on "Mad As Hell" at first, but LOVE this album and couldn't possibly overrate it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 22 February 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
Same!
What I really want to do is play "Rage of Plastics" over and over again, but I always end up listening to the whole thing.THAT's how I know this is super good.
― mr.raffles, Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
mad as hell giving me heart vibes
― nxd, Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
Vocally I'm getting Ida No vibes more than anything else
― J. Sam, Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
Exactly ! I also hear Kylie now that she’s been mentioned but my first thought was Glass Candy.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
Mad as Hell actually reminds me of Blondie of all artists.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
Hope you had help it get to the top 77 2017 poll, we need to get at least one song represented in next year’s poll.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
I still hear Gwen stefani in her timbre but also a deep reverence for doo wop (Glenda Collins maybe?). Still prefer half free tho
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 22 February 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
Rage ofPlastics sounds like black velvet to me
"Incidental Boogie," an excellent Eno-worthy title, is my ear worm.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
"Incidental Boogie" is terrific. Probably my #2 after "Rage...".
As for the singing... while she doesn't (I don't think) have the natural ability or range of Billy Mackenzie, I def hear a touch of him in her more adventurous or dramatic note/performance choices.
― mr.raffles, Thursday, 22 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
Yeah I love this album. "Pearly Gates" is my current jam, but it's all good -- one of those records that ends too soon so I just put it on again.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
pearly gates is great but we can all admit it rips "regulate" right?
― na (NA), Thursday, 22 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
I think you meant "and" not "but" -- part of what makes it great!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 22 February 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
fair enough
― na (NA), Thursday, 22 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
lol I like this album a great deal, almost as much as the last one.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Same here!
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
I don't mind the faster, fuller "Red Ford Radio" on here, but I love the original of that song to pieces. It's more of a spooky dirge.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
the spoken word bits are awful but this is why god invented the skip button and playlisting
I was dying for just one person on the fourth track to say "you suck and I hate you"
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
Y Se Mueve is groovy as hell. Saw them last month in NYC and that was a highlight. Super tight band w/ three backing vocalists.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
I have come in praise of the Alex Frankel remix of "Overtime", contributing to this lovely summer of disco
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
New album out today. Kind of seems like she's fallen off of everyone's radar? Apparently the first single from this album came out back in July and I had no idea.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 24 February 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
The opener sounds like....Toto.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
She had definitely fallen off my radar; this is the first I had heard of the new album.
I saw her live in NYC in February 2020, the last show I saw pre-quarantine. So now I unfortunately associate her (and Heavy Light in particular) with that early-COVID sense of pre-apocalyptic anxiety. I thought the critical backlash to that album was pretty harsh, so I've got high hopes for this one. Only two tracks in right now--Toto OTM re: opener.
― J. Sam, Friday, 24 February 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
Also re: opener, from this track-by-track interview https://www.stereogum.com/2214480/us-girls-bless-this-mess-track-by-track/interviews/footnotes-interview/:
You said that this song is about the act of creation? Tell me why this one kicks off the album.MEG REMY: Because of how it sounds, how it starts. It hits. As they say, “It slaps.” An instant “Oh, shit.” Thematically, the song’s really all over the place. I was initially writing it in my mind as a duet. I really wanted to do a duet with Julian Casablancas, which obviously didn’t happen. Then there was a brief moment where it was going to maybe be a duet with Donald Fagen. That didn’t happen either — someone got my hopes very up.
MEG REMY: Because of how it sounds, how it starts. It hits. As they say, “It slaps.” An instant “Oh, shit.” Thematically, the song’s really all over the place. I was initially writing it in my mind as a duet. I really wanted to do a duet with Julian Casablancas, which obviously didn’t happen. Then there was a brief moment where it was going to maybe be a duet with Donald Fagen. That didn’t happen either — someone got my hopes very up.
Get Don for the remix!!
― J. Sam, Friday, 24 February 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
If Holy Ghost and Thundercat can get Michael Mcdonald surely so can she
― nashwan, Friday, 24 February 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
Feel like Heavy Light showcased most of their worst impulses (or at least the things I enjoyed least about their previous work)... to the extent that it made me question my love for Half Free and In a Poem (which already had some ill-advised clunkers to go with the VERY high highs).
Should I listen to this?
― mr.raffles, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
early indications appear to be that this has a couple of bangers and a bunch more half-baked stuff, will listen (no matter how cringe she gets, Half Free will always be a masterpiece)
― imago, Friday, 24 February 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
I liked “Pump” the best on first listen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
listening now. at least so far i can say it has a better track than anything on heavy light (the second). however it also has a worse track than anything on it (the third). nice to give yourself an out by calling it a mess in the title lol
― imago, Monday, 27 February 2023 12:33 (one year ago) link
yeah this isn't very good
― imago, Monday, 27 February 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link
It's about as uneven as Heavy Light was for me. The playlist I just made with the best tracks from both is a pretty decent album though!
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jAAMOW3.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link