Watch: U.S. Girls – ‘If These Walls Could Talk’

Altered Zones have premiered the video for the U.S. Girls track ‘If These Walls Could Talk’, taken from the 12” split with Slim Twig, out now on the Palmist label.

The video – a collaboration between U.S. Girl Meg Remy and photographer/filmmaker Molly Landergan – was apparently made using only a digital camera, two lamps, a stool, some dollar store makeup and a bit of whisky. Remy is shown in triple vision, hair covered and in various stages of made-up-ness, going through a series of face-contorting emotions – from what looks like happiness, through anger, despair and desperation. According to the description, the video is looking to portray one woman as all women, and it is a starkly arresting visual.

As for the song itself – with an intro that could belong to The Crystals, and Remy’s cooly monotonous vocals – it screams with a uniquely female kind of attitude. The perfect mix between a, well, perfect mix and a vocal that sounds simultaneously young and bruised, and old and wizened.

Both video and song are equally startling in their portrayal of what feels like absolute honesty. Neither are a comfortable or cosy, but both are extremely beautiful – in a ferocious, gutsy, real-life, no makeup, heart-breaking kind of way.