US Girls

US Girls: Bless This Mess review – bodies, birth and dating pains

Meg Remy’s life-changing experiences colour a scattershot album that works best the closer it sticks to straightforward pop

Phil Mongredien

26, Feb, 2023 @3:00 PM

Various artists: Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono review – tribute to brilliance of rock icon’s music

Death Cab for Cutie, David Byrne and the Flaming Lips are among artists reworking Ono’s strange sound and outsider songs into something more palatable

Rachel Aroesti

18, Feb, 2022 @8:30 AM

The 50 best albums of 2020: the full list

Our countdown is complete, topped by a mercurial work of sprawling invention by a woman who has dug deep to survive. Taken as a whole, these choices contain drama, solace, poetry and fire, a fitting selection for a turbulent year

Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes

18, Dec, 2020 @8:07 AM

The best albums of 2020 so far

There’s shaken-up pop from Rina Sawayama, searching rap by J Hus and Jay Electronica, and invention everywhere from KeiyaA’s soul to Beatrice Dillon’s electronics

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

11, May, 2020 @5:00 AM

Alt-pop star US Girls: 'Things happened to me as a kid that broke part of my brain'

She is the face of America’s most vital band, creating a furious soundtrack for our collapsing world. Meghan Remy talks booze, abuse and why she’s feeling mad as hell

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

11, Mar, 2020 @6:00 AM

US Girls: Heavy Light review – a major talent doubles down

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Kitty Empire

08, Mar, 2020 @9:00 AM

Tracks of the week reviewed: US Girls, Jake Shears, Grimes

This week there’s some anti-establishment disco, a summer banger (in winter), and a beautiful acoustic tearjerker

Laura Snapes

21, Feb, 2020 @11:00 AM

50 great tracks for February from David Bowie, Waxahatchee, J Hus and more

From US Girls’ ritzy funk to Jeff Parker’s melodic revamp of a Joe Henderson classic, check out 50 new tracks and read about our 10 favourites

Michael Cragg , Michael Hann, Ammar Kalia, Jude Rogers, Dave Simpson and Laura Snapes

03, Feb, 2020 @10:28 AM

50 great tracks for March from Chvrches, Riko Dan, Machine Head and more

Check out Angolan kuduro, fluffy disco-funk and whimsical fingerpicking in this month’s roundup of the best new music. Subscribe to the playlist of all 50 tracks and read about our 10 favourites

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

07, Mar, 2018 @10:00 AM

US Girls: In a Poem Unlimited review – joyous pop meets protest music

Dave Simpson

16, Feb, 2018 @10:00 AM

Tracks of the week reviewed: Noah Cyrus, Daphne and Celeste and James Bay

Featuring 2018’s first gold-plated pop anthem, a bucket-bonced banger-botherer and indie-pop’s premier hat wearing returns with an underplayed slinkwobbler

Peter Robinson

16, Feb, 2018 @12:00 AM

'I'm moving to Canada': the cops, pop stars and athletes who made good on the threat

From the female squash champion fleeing the Taliban, to the gay popstar who became a hit back in macho Brazil, it’s often Canada’s newcomers who can tell its most dramatic stories

Chris Frey, Tyler Stiem, Ashifa Kassam, Jessa Gamble, Shelley Boettcher, Bartley Kives, Daniel Vila, Fenella Walker, Hollie White, Matthew Hays and Chris Michael

14, Dec, 2016 @5:23 PM