US GirlS

in a Poem unlimited

4aD 7/10 Hall-of-mirrors boogie on pop provocateur’s sixth

Meg Remy’s shapeshifting art-pop project US Girls has been a going concern for a decade, but it was the wired new wave of 2015’s Half Free that constituted something of a breakthrough. Like that record, In A Poem Unlimited is a fairly ravishing listen that brings life to Remy’s Cindy Sherman-style identity politics. Working with Toronto collective The Cosmic Range gives her baroque blues verve and swagger – “MAH” is a disco pastiche dealing with pacifism, while on the Mo’ Wax funk of “Pearly Gates” her character seduces St Peter. Sadly, the louche “Rage Of Plastics” could be a raunchy segment in an episode of Ally McBeal. Remy herself remains an enigma.