U.S. Girls shares new video for Window Shades

US Girls video Window Shades

Next month sees the release of Half Free, the debut album from Meg Remy’s U.S. Girls on 4AD, released 25th September.

Premiered on BBC 6Music, new track ‘Window Shades’ has just been posted online and made available on streaming services. Built around a beat borrowed from Gloria Ann Taylor’s deep disco cut ‘Love is a Hurting Thing’ – a song that husband Slim Twig heard about while perusing the Acid Archives catalogue – ‘Window Shades’ pays tribute to a lost classic.

Twig created the beat and produced the track, which Meg has draped with a wondrously dramatic tale of heartbreak. The song is notable in that it is a husband/wife collaboration echoing Gloria Ann Taylor’s track; Taylor’s husband and James Brown associate Walter Whisenhunt produced ‘Love is a Hurting Thing’.

The accompanying video for ‘Window Shades’ is a surreal take on “Golden Era” Hollywood, with Meg cast as bandleader of The Marimba Queens. Directed by Meg and Cameron Mitchell and produced by Renata Morales, you can watch the video now on youtube.

Meg will be touring Half Free in North America and Europe following its release. You can find all upcoming dates and ticket links below…

September
18th – Tulane University, New Orleans LA, US

October
1st – Belly Up Tavern, San Diego CA, US #
2nd – The Observatory, Santa Ana CA, US #
3rd – Mezzanine, San Francisco CA, US #
5th – Roseland Theater, Portland OR, US #
6th – Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC, Canada #
9th – Copenhagen Central Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
10th – Babel, Malmo, Sweden
11th – Crossroad, Oslo, Norway
12th – Pusterviksbaren, Gothenberg, Sweden
14th – Palace St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
15th – Saali, Basel, Switzerland
16th – Covo Club, Bologna, Italy
17th – Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18th – Botanique – Rotonde, Brussels, Belgium
25th – Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
26th – Headrow House, Leeds, UK
27th – Broadcast, Glasgow, UK
28th – Corsica Studios, London, UK
29th – Monarch, Berlin, Germany
30th – King Georg, Cologne, Germany

November
12th – La Vitrola, Montreal QC, Canada
13th – Alphaville, Brooklyn NY, US +
14th – Mercury Lounge, New York NY, US +
15th – O’Briens Pub, Boston MA, US +
16th – Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia PA, US +
17th – Comet Ping Pong, Washington DC, US +
18th – Neptune’s Parlour, Raleigh NC, US +
19th – 529, Atlanta GA, US
20th – The End, Nashville TN, US
21st – Empty Bottle, Chicago Il, US

# w/ Peaches
+ w/ Escape-Ism (Ian Svenonius)

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