Heavy Light (U.S. Girls album)

Heavy Light
Studio album by U.S. Girls
Released	March 6, 2020 (2020-03-06)
Genre	Experimental pop [1] Funk Soul [2]
Length	37:29
Label	4AD
Producer	Meghan Remy
U.S. Girls chronology
In a Poem Unlimited (2018) Heavy Light (2020) Bless This Mess (2023)

Heavy Light is the seventh studio album by Toronto-based musician and producer Meghan Remy, under her solo project U.S. Girls. It was released March 6, 2020 under 4AD. ^{[3] [4]}

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.9/10 [5]
Metacritic	82/100 [6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Crack Magazine	8/10 [8]
Exclaim!	9/10 [9]
God Is in the TV	8/10 [10]
The Line of Best Fit	9/10 [2]
NME	[11]
Paste	8.3/10 [12]
Pitchfork	8.5/10 [1]
Spectrum Culture	4.25/5 [13]
Under the Radar	8.5/10 [14]

Heavy Light was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 82, based on 16 reviews. ^[6]

The album received a Juno Award nomination for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021. ^[15]

Accolades

Accolades for Heavy Light

Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
Paste	Paste's 25 Best Albums of 2020 – Mid-Year	11	[16]
Pitchfork	The 50 Best Albums of 2020	15	[17]

Track listing

Heavy Light track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"4 American Dollars"	Rich Morel Meg Remy	5:42
2.	"Overtime"	Basia Bulat Louis Percival Remy	2:54
3.	"IOU"	Morel Remy	4:42
4.	"Advice to Teenage Self"		0:50
5.	"State House (It's a Man's World)"	Remy Maximilian Turnbull	1:43
6.	"Born to Lose"	Jack Name	3:07
7.	"And Yet It Moves/Y Se Mueve"	Morel Remy Kassie Richardson	3:36
8.	"The Most Hurtful Thing"		1:04
9.	"Denise, Don't Wait"	Basia Bulat Remy Turnbull	4:20
10.	"Woodstock '99"	Bulat Remy Jimmy Webb	2:36
11.	"The Color of Your Childhood Bedroom"		0:27
12.	"The Quiver to the Bomb"	Morel Remy	4:23
13.	"Red Ford Radio"	Remy	2:05
Total length:			37:29

References

1. Kemp, Sophie (March 9, 2020). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved May 9, 2020.
2. Horton, Ross (March 2, 2020). "U.S. Girls balance the existential with vibrancy on Heavy Light" . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
3. Hussey, Allison (January 13, 2020). "U.S. Girls Announce New Album Heavy Light". Pitchfork . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
4. Zoladz, Lindsay (March 4, 2020). "Pop Is Obsessed With What's Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past". The New York Times . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
5. "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
6. "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved December 7, 2020.
7. Thomas, Fred. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
8. Thomas, Katie. "Crack Magazine Review". Crack Magazine . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
9. Bell, Kaelan (March 3, 2020). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim! . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
10. Hobbs, Matt (March 9, 2020). "God Is In the TV Review". God Is in the TV . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
11. Krol, Charlotte (March 4, 2020). "U.S. Girls – 'Heavy Light' review: frustrating filler pulls focus from flashes of brilliance". NME . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
12. Jones, Austin (March 9, 2020). "U.S. Girls' Heavy Light Overflows with Empathy" . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
13. Korber, Kevin (March 11, 2020). "Spectrum Culture Review". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
14. Campbell, Caleb (March 5, 2020). "Under the Radar Review". Under the Radar . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
15. Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
16. "The Best Albums of 2020 (So Far)". Paste . June 8, 2020. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
17. Hussey, Allison (December 8, 2020). "The 50 Best Albums of 2020". Pitchfork . Retrieved December 9, 2020.