Meghan Remy has typically worked alone at songwriting and performing in her experimental pop project, U.S. Girls . But this time around on her fourth album, GEM , released late last year, she enlisted a bit of outside assistance to help her bring her ideas to fuller fruition. Her husband, Toronto musician Slim Twig helped in the production and recording of the album this time around, helping shine a bit of daylight on her gritty basement sound. Although Meg toured with a band last year on some European dates, she was back playing solo [...]
Meghan Remy is U.S. Girls whose music is odd and dischordant in a David Lynch kind of way, but rooted in '60s girl group sounds. A warped copy of The Ronettes played on a battery operated turntable? Kinda. You can stream U.S. Girls most recent LP, Gem , and watch the NSFW video for album track "Work from Home" below. Remy is taking U.S. Girls on the road, bringing along collaborator Slim Twig , for a North American tour, including an NYC stop at Death by Audio [...]
U.S. Girls latest video will make you want to "Work from Home". Meghan Remy, aka U.S. Girls , has released a video for "Work From Home" off her recent album, GEM , out now through FatCat Records . GEM is Remy's fourth release and continues her music collaboration with Slim [...]
The double LP has a certain stigma; an implied obligation to deliver art on a grandiose scale. Ela Orleans's genre hopping 19-track Tumult in Clouds manages to prove the stigma irrelevant and meet those expectations in her own, unpredictable ways. The variety of styles and sonic textures present here come as no shock, given Ela's back catalog of thoughtful explorations of various styles, but the subtle ways in which the tracks form relationships that make up, well, the album are worth the price of admission alone. Case in point: "Longing," wherein wandering vocals and obtuse harmonies [...]
Since everyone is doing their " Best of " list. So here is my list for Canadian albums that came out in 2012. Starting from #50 to #41. I had to say this year was pretty hard finding what were *in my opinion* the best albums to come out in Canada. As I will say this, just be happy you made it on the list. If there were some missing ones I will probably put them on honorable mentions. For the Top 12 Canadian albums, it will be broadcast on my radio show [...]
Welcome back to the second installment of the songs that rocked my world in 2012. A small re-cap for those of you who missed out on yesterday's post: without any fanfare, ranking or listing, I'm giving you the 75 songs, split into five collections of 15 songs each, that soundtracked the year for me. There will be a post a day this week from Monday to Friday (You can click back to Monday's post to get the first part) , and you can collection them all to get a pretty awesome compilation that I think is a good [...]
Max Turnball, a.k.a. Slim Twig , took inspiration from Lolita for his new LP A Hound at the Hem . Though it's hard to catch many lyrics through his drawl, Turnball's voice does catch the drift of a creepy uncle who acts like his tortured heart gives him a hall-pass for inappropriate lascivious behavior; there's definitely some Nick Cave vibes slinking around. Turnball is an actor as well as a musician and he brings a campy yet convincing characterization to his music. A Hound [...]
A Hound at the Hem is a pop record that completely forgets it's a pop record. Toronto's Slim Twig - the alias for Max Turnbull - is a bit of a triple threat. For one, he is an actor, probably best known for playing Billy Zero in the 2007 Canadian independent film The Tracey Fragments, which starred Ellen Page. He is also a music producer - he helmed the recent release, GEM, by his wife Megan Remy, who records under the moniker U.S. Girls. He is also a recording artist under...
The self-made video for Dirty Beaches' "Neon Gods & Funeral Strippers" delivers a non-narrative array of complementary and often quite striking sequences whose relationships with the track is as completely interpretive as they are to each other. With the video collage having been the music video format of choice for so many artists seeking to create an impactful piece on their own and on the cheap, it's easy to forget that the tie between film montage and psychedelia is far from arbitrary; they share a conceptual tie that precedes the advent of either film or the electric guitar. This video [...]
Slim Twig has debuted a new video for "All This Wanting" from his album, A Hound At The Hem , out now through Calico Corp and Pleasence Records . Watch the video for the particularly catchy song after the jump. A Hound [...]
by Tiana Feng Slim Twig - All This Wanting from Emily Pelstring on Vimeo . Here's the video from the first single of Slim Twig's A Hound at the Hem . There are some really strange puppets, enough said.
New in Toronto Music rounds up recently released audio & video from local talent. COLD SPECKS / HECTOR / OCTOBER 31ST I'm sure Cold Specks' pregnant bride character has good motivation for dragging a beheaded groom through rural landscapes in the new video for "Hector" off her Polaris Prize nominated album I Predict a Graceful Expulsion . I still can't help but feel bad for the guy, though. After all — without a head, he can't listen to this beautiful song or watch [...]
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De naam doet anders vermoeden, maar U.S. Girls is toch echt Megan Remy in d’r eentje. In 2008 begon ze thuis met microfoons, een kapotte drummachine, cassettedecks en een reel-to-reel tape recorder te rommelen. Inmiddels zijn we een aantal sterke platen verder. Vorig jaar kwam ik al nauwelijks van mijn verslaving aan U.S. Girls On KRAAK af; een doorbraak zat in het verschiet. Met de promomachine van het FatCat label nu achter zich, ligt de wereld aan haar voeten. Terecht, want haar nieuwste, GEM genaamd, is opnieuw een pareltje. [...]
Meghan Remy, aka U.S. Girls, will release her album, GEM, through FatCat Records on October 23rd. GEM is Remy's fourth release and continues her music collaboration with Slim Twig (producer, mixer) on the new album. Remy recently directed a video for her song, "North on 453, starring Lulu Hazel Turnbull. Watch teh video [...]
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by Tiana Feng Slim Twig is a busy busy man. It feels like he just released Sof Sike , but on November 6th he will reveal the follow up A Hound At The Hem . The album recruits Owen Pallett for string arrangements, so that should be exciting. Here is the orchestrated opening track Heavy Spleandor . A Hound at the Hem by Slim Twig
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Decided to hit up Babylon Nightclub on October 13th. Playing at the show was: Slim Twig U.S. Girls The Yips It was an early show but I really wanted to see U.S. Girls and Slim Twig played live. Before the show, my contributor Emily and I got to interview Slim Twig and U.S. [...]
Canadian-American musican Slim Twig is an actor, artist and producer of wonder. No sooner had we been awaiting on the release of U.S. Girls' album GEM featuring production work from Twig than we heard word of of his forthcoming LP, Hound at the Hem. Following up Sof' Sike from earlier this year; Hem has been said to have borrowed it's baroque from Jean-Claude Vannier's arrangements, Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson and the Nabakovian spun into the realm of sleaze guitar...
Slim Twig has announced the release of a new album A Hound At the Hem . The record, which comes out on November 6th, will be the Toronto musician's second of the year. Here's the track list: Heavy Splendour Clerical Collar Widow, You were Younger Shroud by the Sheetful All the Wanting Hover on a Sliver Maintain the Charade Blonde Ascending, Come into [...]
Slim Twig has announced the new album, A Hound at the Hem, set to release on November 6th through Calico Corp and Pleasance Records. Slim Twig promises that A Hound at the Hem takes a harder psych approach than his previous LP, Sof Sike. The new album is a baroquely arranged tribute to [...]
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