Name: Heavy Light
Brand: U.S. Girls

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

4AD0208LPE

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Colour

white

Colour details

White and Purple Splatter.

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-03-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

191400020832

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / white

4AD0208LP

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black

Extended format: No

191400020818

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

4AD0208CD

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191400020825

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

U.S. Girls

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

The highly anticipated seventh album by U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy, is entitled Heavy Light. While Remy has been widely acclaimed for a panoply of closely observed character studies, on Heavy Light she turns inward, recounting personal narratives to create a deeply introspective about-face. The songs are an inquest into the melancholy flavour of hindsight, both personal and cultural. Remy makes this notion formally explicit with the inclusion of three re-worked, previously released songs: Statehouse (It’s A Man’s World), Red Ford Radio, and Overtime.

Heavy Light follows 2018’s internationally critically-acclaimed breakout album In A Poem Unlimited. Recently named one of the best albums of the decade by Pitchfork, it was lauded across the pond by the likes of The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Crack and Q magazine for being Remy’s most accessible record in her then decade-long career.

Heavy Light is produced by Remy and was recorded live with 20 session musicians - including E Street Band saxophonist Jake Clemons - in Montreal’s acclaimed Hotel 2 Tango studio. Remy worked with co-writers Basia Bulat and Rich Morel to develop the core of Heavy Light, a 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 is mixed by long-time collaborators Maximilian ‘Twig’ Turnbull, Steve Chahley and Tony Price.

Heavy Light

Music GB