{"id":42462,"date":"2025-05-20T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=42462"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:05:21","slug":"u-s-girls-announces-new-album-scratch-it-drops-12-minute-epic-bookends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=42462","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Girls announces new album ‘Scratch It’ + drops 12-minute epic \u2018Bookends\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meg Remy, the brilliant mind behind U.S. Girls, is back with a new full-length album ‘Scratch It’<\/strong>, dropping June 20, 2025, via Royal Mountain Records and 4AD. And in true U.S. Girls fashion, she\u2019s not easing in\u2014she\u2019s launching this new chapter with Bookends<\/a><\/em>, a sprawling 12-minute single and short film that hits like a slow-motion lightning strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t just a song\u2014it’s a whole world. Co-written with Edwin de Goeji, Bookends<\/em> is the emotional core of ‘Scratch It’<\/strong>, and it’s built from deep reflection. Remy wrote it in memory of her late friend, Power Trip frontman Riley Gale, while immersed in Eyewitness to History<\/em>, a hefty tome of first-person accounts spanning centuries. One idea stuck with her: \u201cThere is not a hierarchy to suffering, and death is the great equalizer.<\/em>\u201d That sentiment pulses through every second of Bookends<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The track arrives with a cinematic short film directed by Caity Arthur. It\u2019s surreal, theatrical, and strangely euphoric\u2014death not as an end, but as a transformation. Picture a 1960s pop performance, a bit of sleight-of-hand magic, and a ghostly variety show melting together while Remy\u2019s voice weaves through each scene. It’s mesmerizing, weird in all the right ways, and deeply moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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