Heavy Light
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CRITIC REVIEWS
90
Heavy Light is more subdued, more restrained, and certainly more beautiful than its big sister.
8mo
90
Heavy Light, the remarkable new record from Meg Remy's U.S. Girls project, is a scavenger hunt for these elusive pasts — music devoted to reflection and retrospection.
8mo
90
The result are songs that are surprisingly deep, but not necessarily grand, often built around disco-inspired grooves, with vocals refracting light all over the album. It gives the record the feeling of an idiosyncratic religious ceremony.
8mo
90
Heavy Light finds Remy’s political commentary more radical than ever, but this time looking inward, offering a sobering and sometimes dark-humoured portrayal of survival and work.
8mo
85
Heavy Light both reflects back on her previous work and stands among the best of it.
8mo
85
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.
8mo
85
Here, Remy explores a universal pain that comes with existing in modern society, and she does so by putting herself at the center of the story.
8mo
85
Heavy Light is almost always interesting if not always “catchy.”
8mo
83
It trades Poem’s jagged punchiness for overflowing empathy, coalescing as a meditative and challenging album.
8mo
80
Heavy Light is absent of poses and gimmicks and scored through with subtlety and nuance – it’s a razor-pointed, laser-guided pop record that speaks with fierce intelligence to the times.
8mo
80
Her latest, Heavy Light ... is more personal. It looks inward and backwards, acting as a retrospective of her career so far.
8mo
80
It's another huge step forward for the uncontainable U.S. Girls organism, one that skillfully combines the immediacy of personal memories with Remy's uncanny ability to inject her singular creative voice into every sound she touches.
8mo
80
Combining bossa nova, a Patti Smith impression (on Born to Lose) and a song about the planet shrugging off its infestation of humans, Heavy Light confirms a major talent.
8mo
80
Taking the album as whole it’s another thought-provoking, stylistically diverse and intellectual entry into the U.S Girls catalogue.
8mo
80
If last album In a Poem Unlimited helped Remy broaden her audience by taking aim at the patriarchy over a disco beat, Heavy Light feels more theatrical, pinning her politics to piano melodies and gospel choirs.
8mo
80
Investing pop with such potent subtext has long been the U.S. Girls project; thanks to its exquisite craft, and Remy's feel for her characters, that project finds its finest expression yet in Heavy Light.
4mo
80
Now, she's telling her own stories and directing from centre-stage.
4mo
80
It feels like Remy kicking the sides of her place in the world, seeing if it's fit for purpose. For now, Heavy Light holds her ground beautifully.
4mo
70
Heavy Light is ambitious, grandiose, provocative, and, like Poem before it, still allows you to shake your ass in places if you want to.
8mo
70
Disco self-care ... with stomping dance tracks and lush ballads.
1mo
60
Meg Remy's latest album lacks the slick, danceable energy of 2018's outrageously good 'In A Poem Unlimited' – but there's still beauty to be found here.
8mo
60
Meghan Remy's experimental pop project U.S. Girls ventures into more mainstream territory to mixed results on Heavy Light.
8mo
50
Heavy Light rapidly loses momentum after the first couple of songs.
8mo
The follow up to Meg Remy's breakthrough album "In a Poem Unlimited", which happens to be one of my top 25 albums from this past decade (Half Free is also a damn fine album if you haven't heard it).
Lets get right to it...
People will complain about the three speaking voice only interludes, but its just as easy to cut those out and leave yourself with 36 minutes and 10 tracks of near flawlessness (except when you spin this on vinyl). There are a handful of tracks in a similar ... read more
Lets get right to it...
People will complain about the three speaking voice only interludes, but its just as easy to cut those out and leave yourself with 36 minutes and 10 tracks of near flawlessness (except when you spin this on vinyl). There are a handful of tracks in a similar ... read more
Picking apart the lead singles and much of the critical insight, it seemed most reasonable that "Heavy Light", while reminiscent of the excellent, vibrant records that preceded it, is to be analyzed as its own exclusive product, one that wallows in moderate presentation, pensive personality, and reflective retrospection, rather than musical exhilaration or conceptual expansiveness. In principle, such a stylistic contrast isn't illogical for Meghan Remy, following up the thematic, ... read more
One of my personal favorite releases of 2018, was U.S. Girls album “In a Poem Unlimited”, a brilliant and wonderfully aware release that was a perfect example of equality between the instrumentation and lyrics from the women behind it all Meghan Remy. With instrumentation that was influenced by everything from hypnagogic pop, to disco, and subject matter that was poetically relevant. It was a masterclass in not neglecting lyrics for instrumentation or vice versa, which is a downfall ... read more
Take cover, boys, U.S. Girls is back !!!
After the unbeatable "In a Poem Unlimited", Meghan Remy comes back with a successful album on the whole, both refined and sensitive, both polyphonic and percussive.
Two years after the critical triumph of the album "In a Poem Unlimited", which saw her go from being an underground curiosity to a major indie pop artist, thanks to songs as bouncy as they are acidic, the Chicagoan exiled in Toronto, Canada, succeeds once again with ... read more
After the unbeatable "In a Poem Unlimited", Meghan Remy comes back with a successful album on the whole, both refined and sensitive, both polyphonic and percussive.
Two years after the critical triumph of the album "In a Poem Unlimited", which saw her go from being an underground curiosity to a major indie pop artist, thanks to songs as bouncy as they are acidic, the Chicagoan exiled in Toronto, Canada, succeeds once again with ... read more
Meg Remy challenges herself and her audience by pushing her familiar questions into new and wonderful forms. Where earlier albums explored how an individual can push back against oppressive powers, Heavy Light shifts towards collective motivation. This concept manifests in her sound as well, which continues to mine the history of pop for sonic gems while incorporating a chorus of new voices. Through this excavation process, Remy locates herself on a trajectory of political activism. She finds ... read more
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Track List
- 4 American Dollars
- Overtime
- IOU
- Advice To Teenage Self
- State House (It’s A Man’s World)
- Born To Lose
- And Yet It Moves / Y Se Mueve
- The Most Hurtful Thing
- Denise, Don’t Wait
- Woodstock ‘99
- The Color Of Your Childhood Bedroom
- The Quiver To The Bomb
- Red Ford Radio
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Added on: January 13, 2020