Artist:U.S. Girls
Song:Window Shades
Album:Half Free
Meg Remy started U.S. Girls as an experimental home recording project using electronics and tape loops. By the 2015 album Half Free, it had turned into an electronic band mixed with 60s girl group influences. And she's on a mini major record label. Meg is from Philadelphia. She started U.S. Girls in 2007 as a solo project using a reel to reel tape machine. She released a couple of albums. In 2010 she married musician Max "Slim Twig" Tutnbull and moved to his home town of Toronto. He had released a few albums of his own. He encouraged Meg to turn U.S. Girls into a more traditional pop group. So that's what they have done. This new direction started on the 2012 album Gem on the British label FatCat. And the success of that album led to a deal with 4AD Records which I would describe as a mini major label specializing in independent and alternative rock. Half Free was the first album on 4AD. The album was favorably reviewed, nominated for a Juno and a finalist in the 1996 Polaris Music Prize. Meg writes and sings. Turnbull produced with Louis "Onakabazien" Percival. And that's the core of the group. They bring in outside musicians but it's not clear exactly what they do. I think it's mostly background vocals. U.S. Girls latest album Heavy Light was released Mar. 2020. Here's the video for Window Shades by U.S. Girls.
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