U.S. Girls Announce New Album Heavy Light, Share Lead Single “Overtime”

Back after delivering one of 2018’s best albums in In A Poem Unlimited, Meg Remy’s U.S. Girls have announced their seventh record, Heavy Light, out March 6 via 4AD, offering a first preview in the form of previously released, now-reworked lead single “Overtime.”

Produced by Remy, co-written by Remy, Basia Bulat and Rich Morel, and recorded live with a whopping 20 session musicians, including saxophonist Jake Clemons of the E Street Band, Heavy Light finds Remy looking inward, a press release explains, “recounting personal narratives to create a deeply introspective about-face. The songs are an inquest into the melancholy flavor of hindsight, both personal and cultural. Remy makes this notion formally explicit with the inclusion of three re-worked, previously released songs.” These include “Statehouse (It’s A Man’s World),” “Red Ford Radio” and today’s new iteration of “Overtime.”

Paste’s best live band of 2018, U.S. Girls have also set a cross-country North American tour for this spring, with 27 shows starting in Detroit on April 4. Ahead of their new album’s early-March release, the band will perform “special underplays” in Toronto, Montreal and New York City in mid-February.

Listen to “Overtime” below, and find the details of Heavy Light and U.S. Girls’ tour dates further down. You can preorder their new record right here.

Heavy Light Tracklist:
01. 4 American Dollars
02. Overtime
03. IOU
04. Advice To Teenage Self
05. State House (It’s A Man’s World)
06. Born To Lose
07. And Yet It Moves / Y Se Mueve
08. The Most Hurtful Thing
09. Denise, Don’t Wait
10. Woodstock ‘99
11. The Color Of Your Childhood Bedroom
12. The Quiver To The Bomb
13. Red Ford Radio

Heavy Light Album Art:

U.S. Girls Tour Dates:

February
15 – Toronto, Ont. @ Paradise Theatre SOLD OUT
16 – Montreal, Que. @ Le Ministère
18 – New York, N.Y. @ The Dance

April
04 – Detroit, Mich. @ MOCAD
05 – Chicago, Ill. @ Lincoln Hall
06 – Madison, Wis. @ Majestic Theatre
07 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Cedar Cultural Center
09 – Omaha, Neb. @ Slowdown
10 – Kansas City, Mo. @ Record Bar
12 – Denver, Colo. @ Bluebird Theatre
13 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ Metro Music Hall
14 – Boise, Idaho @ The Olympic
16 – Vancouver, B.C. @ Imperial
17 – Seattle, Wash. @ Crocodile
18 – Portland, Ore. @ Mississippi Studios
20 – San Francisco, Calif. @ The Independent
21 – San Jose, Calif. @ The Ritz
22 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Masonic Lodge Hollywood Forever
24 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Valley Bar
25 – Tucson, Ariz. @ 191 Toole
27 – Austin, Texas @ Antone’s
28 – Dallas, Texas @ Club Dada
29 – Houston, Texas @ Continental Club

May
01 – Memphis, Tenn. @ The Greenroom at Crosstown Arts
02 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Exit/In
03 – Asheville, N.C. @ Grey Eagle
05 – Washington, D.C. @ U Street
06 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
07 – Boston, Mass. @ Sinclair
08 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ World Cafe Live

June
09 – Montreal, Que. @ Sala Rosa

October
14 – London, U.K. @ Queen Elizabeth Hall