US Girls is the cover of choice for the activities of Ms. Megan Remy, a solo artist who uses tape loops, vocals, guitar and fucked-up delay/reverb environs to conjure ghosts of the American night. In some ways her mode is comparable to the vocal experiments of Inca Ore or Grouper but there's a grimier, punk primitive edge to the way that she wraps her lungs around minimal song-forms and instrumental fragments that is singularly beautiful. The whole recording has a damaged, far-away fidelity, one that speaks of huge geographic space, of shortwave signals bounding from planets and of all of the darkest sounds from the furthest ends of the dial - Suicide, Scorces, even Springsteen’s Nebraska. In fact there's an amazing cover version of Springsteen's "Prove It All Night" that further bolsters a long-held personal theory that with Nebraska, Springsteen's closest reference point was the hunted midnight 'billy sound of Vega and Rev. On "Prove It All Night" Remy finally joins the dots, with the most forlorn, emotionally-damaged reading of any Springsteen track to date. Elsewhere there are instrumentals that take off on wordless delayed vocals and simple repeating guitar patterns and songs that touch on the furthest vectors of articulated form in much the same way that the Circuit Des Yeux record did. If you dig the sound of analog entropy then Introducing... is sure to become your post-midnight spin of choice. Screened covers, one-time edition of 500 copies, no re-press. Highly recommended.
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PAST TIP OF THE TONGUES
