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U.S. Girls
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Description: | 7" on Atelier Ciseaux, Edn of 300 in variable screen printed sleeves!! |
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| Format: | 7" (vinyl) | |
| Genre(s): | Experimental Pop | |
| Label: | Atelier Ciseaux | |
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£6.99
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| Availability: | Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry! |
...according to our Business Lady on 01 July 2010.
Meghan Remy has produced yet another fine 7" that proves once more that she can craft great music from practically nothing. In this case it's a straight preset conga beat accompanied by a wailing vocal line that is shadowed by a high pitched and very aggressive synthesizer melody. She makes great use of those rhythm chord/bassline type things you get on some old Casios to bring a little life to the ending and that's that... Totally ace and totally simple. A real treat. The B-side meanders a little by comparison but the pitched up vocal and old school PJ Harvey style guitar riff are enough to keep me entertained. Nice one Remy, you've significantly improved my day.
Meghan Remy is U.S. Girls and what she does with the haunting electronics and a disembodied heavily effected voice is remarkable.
'Lunar Life' is an example of how an artist with nothing at their disposal can literally pull songs out of thin air. There's hours of tinkering and a love of unnatural sounds throughout. Recreating this is going to be problematic, but can allow for amazing reinterpretations of these heavily sculpted specific tracks. A tiny cheap demo organ beat provides the base for a warbly organ that matches her distorted vibrato cries. Towards the end Meghan is singing along with a high pitch mess of an organ melody and the two start to harmonize in a magic way that becomes another sound on it's own. Like Zola Jesus, she's playing within a barest of bones structure, the delay and looped repeating melodies become haunting and hypnotic. It's a scary desolate world sometimes.
'Take Over Dynamix' features a warped simple guitar melody with ungrounded cable crackle, background minimal drums and vocal sounds. Her vocals are always buried, barely discernible
from the monotony of machines, they are the only sign of humanity almost struggling to reach the surface in this kind of overwhelming oppression. There's nothing like it.
