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Feb 27, 2018Remy is at her most confident as a writer and singer on Poem, and, by working with others, she’s created the fullest realization of U.S. Girls yet.
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Feb 20, 2018In a Poem Unlimited lives up to its aim and its name. It’s a reflection of abuse that feels all-encompassing, and of this era. It’s a timeless gem of an album that is about as powerful as pop music can be.
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Q MagazineFeb 12, 2018In A Poem Unlimited never preaches its messages--it purrs them, the melodies letting them percolate slowly. Remy has taken on today's biggest topic and made it sparkle. [Mar 2018, p.105]
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Feb 28, 2018It’s difficult to envisage anyone else but Remy conceiving such a record. This is exemplary, political pop music executed to near perfection.
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Feb 21, 2018As activist hashtags #MeToo and #TimesUp bear weight and stage heavy resistance against a significant and still increasing population of men with power, Remy’s words prop up the cause, not quite providing the movement its anthem(s), but certainly offering its reason(s) why.
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Feb 20, 2018Even in the project’s continued restless but shrewd eclecticism, this album lives up to its title with an epic, spring-clean screed of passionate grievance in the face a recently re-accelerated, ancient malignant patriarchal tyranny that’s only just starting to get called out for a reckoning at its extremities.
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Feb 12, 2018Groovy and scintillating, but with depth and meaning to spare, In a Poem Unlimited is U.S. Girls--and pop music--at its very best.
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Feb 12, 2018The album is undoubtedly going to end up on many writers’ end-of-year lists, and it’s only February. Remy and her co-conspirators have truly set the bar for great records in 2018, by drawing from the best elements of nocturnal power from bygone eras. It’s all here--just wait and see.
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Feb 20, 2018Each of its songs evokes an individual voice, an individual woman, an individual context and though their stories burn in different colors, each contains an ember of catharsis, a feeling that lasts throughout the album. It is the rare political pop record that looks toward the future and offers us something new.
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Feb 28, 2018At times, that there’s as much “subversive” pop music as there is music that is supposedly being subverted, not all of it as deep as advertised. Poem, thankfully, is far more thoughtful about it than most.
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The WireFeb 23, 2018These tracks embody the heartache arising from Remy struggling with her place, and the place of her sisters, in the world of male power and dominance. [Mar 2018, p.57]
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Feb 23, 2018In a Poem Unlimited offers certainty over contradiction. Remy may loathe violence but understands the pleasures of getting mad. The songs offer a release from moral uncertainty.
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Feb 22, 2018Overall, In a Poem Unlimited continues Remy's upward trajectory on the way to becoming one of the defining figures in alternative pop music and unleashes some new talents that feel fresh and showcase an artist at the top of her game.
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Feb 21, 2018She hasn’t lost anything, just slipped her message into an unusually sleek, attractive covering where we might not have been looking for it.
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Feb 16, 2018The second work for 4AD by the Toronto-based, Illinois-born artist arrives with perfect timing, and tackles difficult issues with her most accessible music so far.
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Feb 16, 2018This is the most rewarding album from the project yet, as it only seems to unfold further and further as you delve deeper and keep replaying.
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Feb 15, 2018Sprawling and complex as In a Poem Unlimited's structures and styles are, it's U.S. Girls' most immediate collection to date, in terms of both sound and message.
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Feb 13, 2018Powerful, potent and bloody good for dancing to, In A Poem Unlimited might just be the soundtrack to the revolution.
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Feb 15, 2018Throughout, there’s a dynamic contrast of ultra-femininity with talk of violence, power, and crouching wrath.
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Feb 20, 2018The feminine focus of Remy’s music overlaps with the political in exact and contemporary ways.
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UncutFeb 12, 2018A fairly ravishing listen that brings to life to Remy's Cindy Sherman-style identity politics. [Mar 2018, p.35]
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Feb 16, 2018The message of US Girls hides under an instrumental output which is far more intriguing than its lyrics--the music is a bit too good for its political musings to be wholeheartedly focused on.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 96 out of 104
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Mixed: 2 out of 104
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Negative: 6 out of 104
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Feb 28, 2018
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Dec 17, 2022
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