Description
U.S. Girls – Bless This Mess – Red Vinyl Record
Limited edition red vinyl exclusive to 4AD store in the US and available at record stores in Europe.
U.S. Girls’ Bless This Mess is a glittering, shape-shifting pop record that turns heartbreak, desire, and late-night doubt into something you can move to. Released in 2023 on 4AD, it finds Meg Remy leaning fully into the emotional power of dance music—disco and funk rhythms, silky synth glow, and basslines that feel like they’re lit from within—while keeping the lyrical punch that’s always made U.S. Girls more than just vibe. These songs are bright, physical, and immediate on the surface, but they’re threaded with complicated feelings: the push and pull between intimacy and independence, the way memory rewrites itself, the strange clarity that arrives when you’re alone with your thoughts and a good groove.
What makes the album so satisfying is how meticulously it’s built. Tracks snap together like tiny scenes, with layered vocals and production details that reveal themselves over repeat listens: a hook that doubles back with a new meaning, a rhythm that subtly shifts under your feet, a chorus that opens up like a door you didn’t notice at first. The record also carries a collaborative spark—guest voices and musicians drift in and out, giving certain songs a conversational feel, as if Remy is writing in dialogue with a wider musical world rather than from a single locked room. The pacing is tight and purposeful, moving from sleek, shimmering pop to more nocturnal, introspective stretches without losing momentum.
Play it for the craft, play it for the catharsis, play it because it’s simply fun: Bless This Mess is the kind of album that can soundtrack a kitchen dance, a solo drive, or a headphones walk through the city, and still hit hard when you actually lean into the words. It’s confident without being cold, glamorous without being shallow—an album that understands how joy and pain often share the same rhythm.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
Only Daedalus
Just Space For Light
Screen Face
Futures Bet
So Typically Now
Bless This Mess
Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)
R.I.P. Roy G. Biv
St. James Way
Pump
