Album
Bless This Mess
2023 · Rock, Pop
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Bless This Mess is an Alt/Indie album by U.S. Girls, originally released in 2023. On Gatefold: 5 pressings tracked.
About
Part of the appeal of Meg Remy’s music is that you can think and feel with it in almost equal measure. Inspired by her experience as a new mother (she delivered twin boys in 2021), <i>Bless This Mess</i> draws from a similar ’80s-pop Petri dish as 2020’s <i>Heavy Light</i> and 2018’s <i>In a Poem Unlimited</i>, and with the same mix of gut passion and high-concept remove. Do you need to know, for example, that the after-school-special balladry of “Bless This Mess” was inspired by the punishment of the Danaïdes in Greek mythology? Or that the hypnotic funk of “Pump” came from Remy’s reflections on how motherhood turns the female body into a kind of machine? Not to derive pleasure from them, clinically speaking, but there’s no doubt she wants you to be aware of the conditions she’s working with when it comes to gender, history, and economy, and to recognize pop as a viable way to get there. And if the ideas start to feel heavy, you can always dance them off.
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1Only Daedalus3:29
- 2Just Space For Light3:56
- 3Screen Face (feat. Michael Rault)3:20
- 4Futures Bet4:52
- 5So Typically Now3:15
- 6Bless This Mess4:02
- 7Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)6:26
- 8R.I.P. Roy G. Biv (feat. Marker Starling)4:42
- 9St. James Way3:43
- 10Pump (feat. Alanna Stuart)3:27
- 11Outro (The Let Down)3:11
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- layered
- restless
- art school
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Standard edition on black vinyl.
Die cut sleeve with a printed inner sleeve.
Track durations are not listed on the reelase.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Aaron KaplanGUITAR
- Alanna StuartFEATURING
- Bailey ChahleyPERCUSSION
- Basia BulatBACKING VOCALS
- Brad KilpatrickDRUMS
- Carlyn BezicBACKING VOCALS
- Dorothea PaasBACKING VOCALS
- Ed SquiresCONGAS PERCUSSION
- Edwin de GoeijKEYBOARDS SYNTH WRITTEN-BY, KEYBOARDS
- Geordie GordonBACKING VOCALS
- Giosue RosatiBASS
- Kassie RichardsonBACKING VOCALS
- Kritty UranowskiBACKING VOCALS
- Kyle KiddBACKING VOCALS
- Marker StarlingFEATURING
- Max TurnbullBACKING VOCALS SYNTH WRITTEN-BY, BACKING VOCALS
- Michael RaultFEATURING
- Philippe MelansonDRUMS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 5 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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