Album Review: US Girls - Half Free

Meghan Remy continues to smash the pop conventions and — in a perfect world — leave the pretenders in her wake.

As it stands, Half Free will probably remain on the fringes, despite its subversive brilliance. From the Western raga sway of Sororal Feelings, every track here is spectacular — the war-torn reggae and sparkle of Damn That Valley; the cerebral disco burn/Byrne of Window Shades; the sonorous noir with shades of Icehouse on New Age Thriller... Each song is fiercely iconoclastic, the lyrics both dark and proudly evocative, shining a light on gender injustice and social failures with a sheen of otherworldly beauty.