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On 2015's Half Free, U.S. Girls' Meg Remy combined some of the project's earlier tape loop experimentation and use of samples with the more polished avant pop of its previous album, GEM. Three years later, she returns with yet a different approach, collaborating with improvisational music collective the Cosmic Range for a dedicated live sound that lives and breathes like a festival stage. (U.S. Girls) In a Poem Unlimited features a six-piece core version of the Toronto funk-fusion band -- one of whom is Remy's husband and frequent collaborator Maximilian Turnbull, aka Slim Twig -- along with over a dozen additional guests. Those guests include keyboardist/programmer Rich Morel, who accompanies Remy alone on two of the songs, "Rosebud" and "Poem," which he also co-wrote. They provide a synth-poppy breather about a third and two-thirds of the way through the track list, at the same time further expanding the album's sound. So, too, do a pair of brief spoken word recordings, also balanced in the sequencing. At the other extreme, the jammiest song in the set is certainly the closer, a cover of Micah Blue Smaldone's "Time." At seven and a half minutes, it's by far the record's longest track, seeming to celebrate the collaboration in encore style, with prominent bongos and saxophones among instruments that add to the Cosmic Range's more regularly featured rhythm section, synths, and guitars. Far from an afterthought, the album's lyrics speak candidly on topics like sexism and violence -- domestic, terrorist, and state-sanctioned -- such as on "M.A.H." ("Mad as Hell"), which addresses the latter via an arty disco. Sprawling and complex as In a Poem Unlimited's structures and styles are, it's U.S. Girls' most immediate collection to date, in terms of both sound and message.
© Marcy Donelson /TiVo
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Mike Smith, StudioMusician - Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Universal Music Publishing Group, MusicPublisher - Basia Bulat, AssociatedPerformer - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Rault, StudioMusician - Maximilian Turnbull, Producer, StudioMusician - Jeff McMurrich, Engineer - Kieran Adams, StudioMusician - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Jonathan Adjemian, StudioMusician - Matthew Dunn, StudioMusician - Brandon Valdivia, StudioMusician - Brodie West, StudioMusician - Emily Denison, StudioMusician - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Basia Bulat, AssociatedPerformer - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Jennifer Castle, AssociatedPerformer - Maximilian Turnbull, StudioMusician - Amanda Crist, AssociatedPerformer - Simone Schmidt, Composer - Kieran Adams, StudioMusician - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Andy Haas, StudioMusician - Jonathan Adjemian, StudioMusician - Matthew Dunn, StudioMusician - Kassie Richardson, AssociatedPerformer - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Mike Smith, StudioMusician - Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Basia Bulat, StudioMusician - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Words & Music, MusicPublisher - Michael Rault, Producer, StudioMusician - Maximilian Turnbull, Producer, ComposerLyricist, StudioMusician - Jeff McMurrich, Engineer - Sean Maclean, StudioMusician - Kieran Adams, StudioMusician - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Jonathan Adjemian, StudioMusician - Matthew Dunn, StudioMusician - Brandon Valdivia, StudioMusician - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Steve Chahley, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Rich Morel, Composer, Producer, Programmer, StudioMusician - Maximilian Turnbull, AssociatedPerformer - Amanda Crist, AssociatedPerformer - Sean Maclean, AssociatedPerformer - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Anthony 'Tony Price' Nemet, Producer, Programmer - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Mike Smith, StudioMusician - Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer, StudioMusician - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Maximilian Turnbull, StudioMusician - Jeff McMurrich, Engineer - Amanda Crist, AssociatedPerformer - Kieran Adams, StudioMusician - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Mark Louis Percy Roberts, Composer - Jonathan Adjemian, StudioMusician - Matthew Dunn, StudioMusician - Brandon Valdivia, StudioMusician - Chris Sandes, StudioMusician - Mark 'Louis Percival' Roberts, Producer, Programmer, StudioMusician - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Mike Smith, StudioMusician - Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Basia Bulat, AssociatedPerformer - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Rault, StudioMusician - Maximilian Turnbull, Composer, Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioMusician - Jeff McMurrich, Engineer - Kieran Adams, StudioMusician - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Jonathan Adjemian, StudioMusician - Matthew Dunn, StudioMusician - Brandon Valdivia, StudioMusician - Brodie West, StudioMusician - Emily Denison, StudioMusician - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Mike Smith, StudioMusician - Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Maximilian Turnbull, StudioMusician - Jeff McMurrich, Engineer - Kieran Adams, StudioMusician - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Mark Louis Percy Roberts, Composer - Jonathan Adjemian, StudioMusician - Matthew Dunn, StudioMusician - Brandon Valdivia, StudioMusician - James Baley, Arranger, StudioMusician - Jack Name, Arranger - Mark 'Louis Percival' Roberts, Producer, Programmer, StudioMusician - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Downtown Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Rich Morel, Composer, Producer, Programmer, StudioMusician - Maximilian Turnbull, StudioMusician - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Jonathan Adjemian, StudioMusician - Chris Sandes, Arranger, StudioMusician - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Steve Chahley, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Mike Smith, StudioMusician - Steve Chahley, Producer, Engineer, MixingEngineer - U.S. Girls, MainArtist - Basia Bulat, AssociatedPerformer - Meg Remy, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Rault, Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, StudioMusician - Maximilian Turnbull, StudioMusician - Jeff McMurrich, Engineer - Kieran Adams, StudioMusician - Dennis Passley, StudioMusician - Meghan Ann Uremovich, ComposerLyricist - Mano Walker LLC, MusicPublisher - Michah Blue Smallsone, Composer - Jonathan Adjemian, StudioMusician - Matthew Dunn, StudioMusician - Brandon Valdivia, StudioMusician - Brodie West, StudioMusician - Hipgnosis Songs Group, MusicPublisher
2018 4AD Ltd 2017 4AD Ltd
Album review
On 2015's Half Free, U.S. Girls' Meg Remy combined some of the project's earlier tape loop experimentation and use of samples with the more polished avant pop of its previous album, GEM. Three years later, she returns with yet a different approach, collaborating with improvisational music collective the Cosmic Range for a dedicated live sound that lives and breathes like a festival stage. (U.S. Girls) In a Poem Unlimited features a six-piece core version of the Toronto funk-fusion band -- one of whom is Remy's husband and frequent collaborator Maximilian Turnbull, aka Slim Twig -- along with over a dozen additional guests. Those guests include keyboardist/programmer Rich Morel, who accompanies Remy alone on two of the songs, "Rosebud" and "Poem," which he also co-wrote. They provide a synth-poppy breather about a third and two-thirds of the way through the track list, at the same time further expanding the album's sound. So, too, do a pair of brief spoken word recordings, also balanced in the sequencing. At the other extreme, the jammiest song in the set is certainly the closer, a cover of Micah Blue Smaldone's "Time." At seven and a half minutes, it's by far the record's longest track, seeming to celebrate the collaboration in encore style, with prominent bongos and saxophones among instruments that add to the Cosmic Range's more regularly featured rhythm section, synths, and guitars. Far from an afterthought, the album's lyrics speak candidly on topics like sexism and violence -- domestic, terrorist, and state-sanctioned -- such as on "M.A.H." ("Mad as Hell"), which addresses the latter via an arty disco. Sprawling and complex as In a Poem Unlimited's structures and styles are, it's U.S. Girls' most immediate collection to date, in terms of both sound and message.
© Marcy Donelson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:39
- Main artists: U.S. Girls
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: 4AD
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
2018 4AD Ltd 2018 4AD Ltd
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