U.S. Ladies Shares Two Distinctive Variations of the New Tune “Operating Errands”
One Model Celebrates the tenth Anniversary of Half Free and the Different Recorded with Her Present Band
Oct 22, 2025
Images by Colin Medley
U.S. Ladies (aka Meghan Remy) has shared a brand new music, “Operating Errands,” in two distinctive variations, “Yesterday” and “At this time” variations. The “Yesterday” model celebrates the tenth anniversary of her album Half Free. The “At this time” model was recorded with the identical band she labored with on her newest album, Scratch It, launched in June through 4AD. Take heed to each variations beneath.
Remy says “Operating Errands” is “a music that consumes its personal tail, by no means wholly free (Half Free, you might say…), by no means wholly certain, perpetually altering because it repeats.”
Annette Snell’s “Footprints on My Thoughts,” a Nashville-recorded soul monitor, impressed each variations of the music.
2015’s Half Free was the fifth U.S. Ladies album, however the first for 4AD.
Scratch It got here collectively when the Toronto-based Remy put collectively a brand new band for a one-off efficiency at a competition in Sizzling Springs, Arkansas. Aided by her buddy, guitarist Dillon Watson (D. Watusi, Savoy Motel, Jack Identify), Remy assembled a band of Nashville-based musicians. She then determined to journey to Nashville to document a brand new album with this new band, which options Watson on guitar alongside Jack Lawrence (The Useless Climate, The Raconteurs, Loretta Lynn) on bass, Domo Donoho on drums, each Jo Schornikow and Tina Norwood on keys, and harmonica legend Charlie McCoy (Elvis, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison). They recorded Scratch It in solely 10 days.
U.S. Ladies beforehand shared Scratch It’s first single, the 12-minute lengthy “Bookends,” through a music video. It was #1 on our Songs of the Week checklist. Then she shared its second single, “Like James Stated,” through a music video. It additionally made our Songs of the Week checklist. Third single “No Fruit” additionally made our Songs of the Week checklist. Scratch It was one in every of our Greatest Albums of June.
U.S. Ladies’ final album was 2023’s Bless This Mess, which was impressed by Remy’s being pregnant and the beginning of her twin boys.
Remy’s album earlier than that, Heavy Gentle, got here out in 2020. Learn our interview with Remy on that album right here.
