U.s. Girls

Though U.S. Girls’ Meghan Remy has declared her love for pop music and her desire to make some, in the past her ability to do so has been held back somewhat by shoddy recording equipment and also by a disconnect between her definition of pop and that of the outside world. On her third full- length, U.S. Girls on KRAAK, she’s dealt with the two factors nicely, polishing away the excessive distortion and ramping up her love of ’60s girl group and ’90s r&b melodies just enough to make the experimentalism that’s at the core of her songs easier to appreciate. She signed to FatCat in late 2011, so another step towards polished pop may be in the works.