On the cover of 8e album of Meg Remy (US Girls), a photo exposes her bulging belly. Bless This Mess will be an intimate reflection on motherhood — the sound of her breast pump provides the rhythm of Pumpthe dress that no longer fits her Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo) —, but more broadly on the lessons learned from the past three turbulent years, focusing on the absurdity of our modern lives, so well expressed in Screen Face And So Typically Now. What a bomb, that one! Disco-funk influences from the previous heavy-light (2020), Remy migrates here into cynicism and the 1980s, with synthetic rhythms and distinctive keyboards, offering these powerful melodies that she knows so well how to put at the service of a remarkably intelligent pen. There are Princes and Blondies in this album, the singer and her collaborators hijacking the codes of pop FM radio (the title track, an Elton John-style ballad dressed in pastel colors) of forty years ago to compose this rich sociological fresco. In concert at the PHI Center on April 13.
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