U.S. Girls has shared another single from her critically acclaimed album of last year, Half Free. Watch the newly released official music video for “New Age Thriller”, directed by Remy’s father-in-law, Ross Turnball.
Onakabazien (who also worked on the tracks ‘Damn That Valley’ and ‘Woman’s Work’) provides another beat, a song he “wanted to sound like a modern day ‘Thriller’.” On the song’s lyrical makeup,
Meg comments: “The world is asleep and the alarm has been going off for so long that it doesn’t matter if we wake up now. Our time has passed; we have been played.”
“The song is unsettling and odd and for some reason, it brought to my mind Godard’s Alphaville, concerned as it is with a society that’s lost its capacity for love and empathy,” says Turnbull. “I tried to emulate a little of his spirit in a couple of set-ups… I shot the demolition footage at Toronto’s Regent Park, an old public housing complex that’s being razed for replacement by condos.”
CRITIC’S PRAISE FOR HALF-FREE:
“A sad pop record that invokes spectres of high, soft and fragile-voiced female singers from past generations, who turn positions of weakness into performances of great strength.”
The WIRE
“With Half Free, Remy has made a brilliant, accessible, edgy pop record without compromising her ideals one iota – and hopefully has surreptitiously brought her into a wider light.”
The Quietus
“The fast-rising exponent of
luscious lo-fi DIY pop.”
The Guardian
