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9.0
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9.0 |
PopMatters
In Bless This Mess, U.S. Girls identify funk and R&B grooves as conduits for the very pulse of life. It’s brilliantly conceived and executed
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8.5
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8.5 |
Northern Transmissions
Remy rises like a phoenix reborn, delivering an album that is both cohesive and remarkable
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8.3
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8.3 |
Beats Per Minute
Continues Remy’s great streak of mixing personal, political, and fun, with more funk and disco touches than ever before
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8.0
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Exclaim
Some may miss the crackling warmth of previous U.S. girls records, but Bless This Mess feels like a rebirth
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8.0
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Clash
At once a joyous, celebratory ode to motherhood, elsewhere finding quiet liberation and acceptance during life’s darkest moments, it’s clear, Meg Remy has delivered her most hopeful album yet
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8.0
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God Is In The TV
A fun, wonderfully bizarre and eclectic record
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8.0
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8.0 |
Record Collector
Remy’s return is rapturous pop music with a vision of better futures in mind. If it is a mess, it’s a glorious one
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8.0
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Loud And Quiet
A celebration of draping yourself in the most dazzling layers possible, which is Remy’s speciality. Best follow her lead and put on your bow tie tonight – even if it’s just to sit in your room spinning Prince records
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8.0
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Dork
U.S. Girls is pop filtered through Meg’s unique prism and ‘Bless This Mess’ is another hit from an artist who goes slightly under the radar but delivers every time
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8.0
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All Music
Another chapter of U.S. Girls' consistent evolution marked by pristine production and a deft balance of hooks and soul-baring beauty, with Remy pulling off the feat of intertwining some of her most emotionally complex material with what might be her most accessible sounds yet
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7.8
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7.8 |
Pitchfork
Meg Remy’s most free-ranging and least narrative-minded album draws on retro funk and ’80s R&B as it infuses her biting social critique and wry humor with fresh optimism
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7.0
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Uncut
With the genre-hopping feel of a high-concept mixtape, Bless This Mess calls on a wide cast of collaborators. Print edition only
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
U.S. Girls strike an upbeat, equanimous pose on Bless This Mess
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6.5
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6.5 |
Under The Radar
Bless This Mess splits the difference between Remy’s last two outings. Considerably more focused than 2020’s Heavy Light, but also foregoing the scuzzy charms of 2018’s In a Poem Unlimited
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
Meg Remy’s life-changing experiences colour a scattershot album that works best the closer it sticks to straightforward pop
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6.0
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6.0 |
musicOMH
A sense of irony and love of the absurd shine through on Meghan Remy’s latest articulation of her intriguing vision
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4.3
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4.3 |
Spectrum Culture
Sandwiched in between its clumsy opener and closer about the circle of life are songs that aim to roast and toast the excesses of life, but there is nothing about them that sounds like a genuinely beautiful disaster, only a facsimile of one
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4.0
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4.0 |
Slant Magazine
Tailor-made for our dance music-obsessed era, but while its occasionally propulsive, the sonic busy-ness that was a pleasure in U.S. Girls’s previous work is here coupled with thematic subject matter and genre diversions that feel ill-suited to its creator’s talents
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