US GIRLS
Feb 20, 2020
2 minutes
By Sharon O’Connell
Heavy Light 4AD
8/10
MEG REMY has described the first songs she made under her US Girls alias in 2007 as “completely free of any inhibitions”. Yet they were the result of musical naivety, not supreme self-confidence: Remy smothered the voice she was unsure of in a fog of effects and, in place of drums, used a popcorn tin with pedals attached. Fast-forward to her eighth albumthat tap ’70s orchestral funk, disco soul and ’60s girl-group pop.
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