Bless This Mess, by U.S. Girls

Bless This Mess

by U.S. Girls

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hodgepodgenoodlehead Had to pick this one up after Troy played it relentlessly on KEXP. The good news is, it's not a bunch of filler thrown in around Tux (which is of course is an undeniable, dancefloor filling jam). This is packed with ear worms Favorite track: Bless This Mess.

energydiluted Easily the band's most fun, danceable, and silliest album yet, and it rules. The song about a damn tuxedo is legit a top 10 of the year for me. Favorite track: Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo).

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1.	Only Daedalus 03:29	info	buy track
2.	Just Space For Light 03:56	info	buy track
3.	U.S. Girls feat. Michael Rault - Screen Face 03:20	info	buy track
4.	Futures Bet 04:52	info	buy track
5.	So Typically Now 03:15	info	buy track
6.	Bless This Mess 04:02	info	buy track
7.	Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo) 06:26	info	buy track
8.	U.S. Girls feat. Marker Starling - R.I.P. Roy G. Biv 04:42	info	buy track
9.	St. James Way 03:43	info	buy track
10.	U.S. Girls feat. Alanna Stuart - Pump 03:27	info	buy track
11.	Outro (The Let Down) 03:11	info	buy track

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The highly anticipated eighth album by U.S. Girls, the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy, will be released on 24 February entitled Bless This Mess. A dynamic suite of dexterous melodies and a nuanced artistic response to the complexities of motherhood, Bless This Mess was 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.

To celebrate the announcement, today U.S. Girls releases the slow jam gem, ‘Futures Bet’ alongside a music video directed by Alex Kingsmill that explores the visual wonder and resiliency of trash. A combination of traditional 3D animation & composited live action footage was fed into various Stable Diffusion deep learning models. Some images in the video have up to 6 passes of the artificial intelligence reinterpretations at various strengths to create the effect. It co-stars Remy and Carlyn Bezic, who also sings on the track and will open for U.S. Girls’ 2023 tour dates under her moniker Jane Inc.

As Remy’s body changed so did her voice; her diaphragm lost breathing room, adjusting to the growing lives inside. Many takes on Bless This Mess were tracked with the babies in utero, or in her arms. (She even samples her breast pump on the album’s poetic closing cut, “Pump”). The resulting performances are suffused by the physicality of this journey: more blood, more feelings, the interwoven wonders, and wounds of procreation.

The ten songs on Bless This Mess were pieced together stem by stem with a vast cast of collaborators (Alex Frankel of Holy Ghost!, Marker Starling, Ryland Blackinton of Cobra Starship, Basia Bulat, Roger Manning Jr. of Jellyfish and Beck,) and audio engineers (Neal H Pogue, Ken Sluiter, Steve Chahley, Maximilian Turnbull). Long-time collaborator, husband, and co-parent Turnbull played a key role facilitating these fluid muses. The production throughout is exquisite, warm, and wood-panelled, framing the voice, keys, bass, and rhythms in heightened textural harmony.

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released February 24, 2023

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"U.S. Girls (Meg Remy), a woman who clearly spends a lot of time in her apartment with the shades drawn, wired together a bunch of drum machines, effects pedals, a mixer, and a Walkman, and unleashed a set of seriously damaged tracks that evoked particularly blunted Lee “Scratch” Perry remixes of Cambodian Rocks covers of Western pop tunes."
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