U.S. GIRLS
Releases Hallucinatory Video For ‘And Yet It Moves / Y Se Mueve’
Latest Album Heavy Light Out Now
https://usgirls.ffm.to/heavylight
Today, U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy, releases the trippy music video for ‘And Yet It Moves / Y Se Mueve’ off the internationally acclaimd 2020 album Heavy Light. The video, created by artist Evan Gordon, pairs the “clever [and] cutting” (Wall Street Journal) song with reversible figures and hallucinatory images that combine Remy’s misplaced features with animated bodies.
Watch the Official Video here: https://youtu.be/XCW_DZ-IUNQ
Heavy Light was produced by Remy, who also co-wrote the album with Basia Bulat and Rich Morel to develop the 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 was mixed by long-time collaborators Maximilian ‘Twig’ Turnbull, Steve Chahley and Tony Price.
Critical Praise For Heavy Light
“Masterful.” Q ****
“One of the U.S’s most brilliant, magnetic performers.” The Guardian
“Glassy, danceable pop songs that smolder with radical undercurrants.” The New Yorker
“The most overly pop-y thing yet issued under the U.S. Girls name.” Metro ****
“Irresistible Trojan horse of classic pop.” MOJO ****
“Disco self-care…with stomping dance tracks and lush ballads.” Rolling Stone
“Artfully honest songs.” Uncut
“A razor-pointed, laser-guided pop record that speaks with fierce intelligence to the times.”
Loud And Quiet
“Only the mind of Meg Remy can take the trauma inflicted on Earth and our childhoods and create something as wonderful as Heavy Light, another vivid and highly affecting album of experimental pop music.” Pitchfork Best New Music
