Heavy Light (U.S. Girls album)

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]

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)

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