Premiered on BBC 6 Music over the weekend, new track from U.S. Girls, ‘Window Shades’ has just been posted online and made available on streaming services. Built around a beat borrowed from Gloria Ann Taylor‘s deep disco cut ‘Love is a Hurting Thing’ – a song that husband Slim Twig heard about while perusing the Acid Archives catalogue – ‘Window Shades’ pays tribute to a lost classic.
Twig created the beat and produced the track, which Meg Remy has draped with a wondrously dramatic tale of heartbreak. The song is notable in that it is a husband/wife collaboration echoing Gloria Ann Taylor’s track; Taylor’s husband and James Brown associate Walter Whisenhunt produced ‘Love is a Hurting Thing’.
The accompanying video for ‘Window Shades’ is a surreal take on ‘Golden Era‘ Hollywood, with Meg cast as bandleader of The Marimba Queens. Directed by Meg and Cameron Mitchell and produced by Renata Morales, you can watch the video below.
The band is set to release their new album Half Free next month on September 25th via 4AD with a supporting tour to follow.
18/9 – Tulane University, New Orleans LA, US
1/10 – Belly Up Tavern, San Diego CA, US
2/10 – The Observatory, Santa Ana CA, US
3/10 – Mezzanine, San Francisco CA, US
5/10 – Roseland Theater, Portland OR, US
6/10 – Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC, Canada
9/10 – Copenhagen Central Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
10/10 – Babel, Malmo, Sweden
11/10 – Crossroad, Oslo, Norway
12/10 – Pusterviksbaren, Gothenberg, Sweden
14/10 – Palace St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
15/10 – Saali, Basel, Switzerland
16/10 – Covo Club, Bologna, Italy
17/10 – Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18/10 – Botanique – Rotonde, Brussels, Belgium
25/10 – Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
26/10 – Headrow House, Leeds, UK
27/10 – Broadcast, Glasgow, UK
28/10 – Corsica Studios, London, UK
29/10 – Monarch, Berlin, Germany
30/10 – King Georg, Cologne, Germany
12/11 – La Vitrola, Montreal QC, Canada
13/11 – Alphaville, Brooklyn NY, US
14/11 – Mercury Lounge, New York NY, US
15/11 – O’Briens Pub, Boston MA, US
16/11 – Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia PA, US
17/11 – Comet Ping Pong, Washington DC, US
18/11 – Neptune’s Parlour, Raleigh NC, US
19/11 – 529, Atlanta GA, US
20/11 – The End, Nashville TN, US
21/11 – Empty Bottle, Chicago Il, US
