Last year, Meg Remy collaborated with filmmaker Grace Glowicki to compose the score for her newest film, Dead Lover, which premiered in the Midnight Section at Sundance, and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Gothenburg. With the theatrical release of Dead Lover from today (March 20), U.S. Girls shares part of her original score, “You’ve Got Everything – But A Smile (Theme From Dead Lover)”, co-written with Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs, and also a key member of the new Nashville-based U.S. Girls live band).

This month U.S. Girls will hit the road, including stops in Nashville (following a screening of Dead Lover), Atlanta, and Chicago. Next May, U.S. Girls duo featuring Meg Remy and Dorothea Paas will open for Belle & Sebastian in Chicago and Toronto.

Meg Remy on Dead Lover score:

“Director Grace Glowicki and I approached the score for Dead Lover by working largely with music that already existed…public domain recordings, fragments from my dusty hard drives, and compositions from my first three deeply lo-fi home-recorded albums. We gathered these sounds into piles we called ‘scraps’ and collaged the score from them, passing the timeline back and forth, adding or subtracting scraps until it felt finished. Even the main theme, ‘You’ve Got Everything – But A Smile’, was a scrap of sorts. It was an incomplete song Jack Lawrence had living on his computer that got unearthed, polished up and put to use. With all that in mind, it felt intuitive to take a similar collage approach to this music video. Instead of cutting a traditional trailer from the film, I went through all the footage that was shot and edited together ‘scraps’ that weren’t used in the final cut. To paraphrase Kurt Schwitters, when everything has broken down, new things can be made from the fragments to create connections, ideally between everything in this world. Collaging never fails.”

U.S Girls 2026 Tour Dates

Mar 28 – PIONEERTOWN, CA – High Desert Art Fair *
Apr 27 – NASHVILLE, TN – BelCourt
Apr 28 – ATLANTA, GA – Aisle 5
Apr 29 – PENSACOLA, FL – The Handlebar
May 25 – TORONTO, ON – Massey Hall ^
May 26 – TORONTO, ON – Massey Hall ^
May 28 – CHICAGO, IL – The Salt Shed ^
May 29 – CHICAGO, IL – The Salt Shed ^

* with Mark Mothersbaugh
^ Duo Set with Dorothea Paas | Supporting Belle & Sebastian

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