New Music: Meg Myers - Numb

Even though in theory the internet should make music to be universal, it’s not. There are still enough other factors in play to ensure that whilst an artist might be known in their own country, in other lands they’re still a stranger. 

I posted a lot about Meg Myers between 2012 and 2015 leading up to her debut LP Sorry. Not only were her jagged and gritty songs sonically powerful and lyrically intense but her videos were admirably disturbing, drawing you into her dark world. The tunes were sufficiently impressive to connect in her home country, where her album charted on the Billboard Top 100, but in here in the UK there seemed to be little or no fanfare for her work.

Since the release of Sorry Meg has been seemingly lying low, but has now announced a forthcoming second album, Take Me To The Disco, due July 20th. Of this record she says: “I started this album in June of 2016. I wrote over 50 songs, recorded in some form 30 or more of those, hiked 2,874 2/3 miles, took 1,246.5 poops, cried a whopping 942 times and laughed a lot too. I moved from Los Angeles to Nashville and then back to Los Angeles. I watched as people debated whether I looked better with long hair or short hair.”

There’s probably a little bit too much information there about the poops (especially half a one – how do you do that?), but importantly you can now hear new music from Take Me To The Disco. 

Despite the name of the album, some of the titles of the songs suggest that we’re not in for a happy day-glo pop album with the likes of Tear Me To Pieces, Funeral, Little Black Death and new single Numb all featuring. Numb is a raging rock tune full of throaty riffs and big dynamics that deals with the feeling of crushing psychological burden placed on her by others: “I hate the feeling of this weight upon my shoulders, pushing the pressure down on me, you think you want the best for me but nothing really matters, if you force it won't come, I guess I'm feeling numb,” she roars before adding “I don’t want to grow up la la la.”

It’s a tense and vociferous song that bodes well for the full-length. Here’s hoping that Meg makes it to Europe (specifically the UK) for some live shows this time round.

Meg Myers - Numb

Meg Myers - Sorry (Video)

You can always rely on Meg Myers for a good quality piece of angry / emotional / scary / mentally unstable video footage to accompany her songs and so as soon as she appears in the video for Sorry, walking through a dark wood alone at night with a baseball bat over her shoulder, you pretty much know that shit is going to go down. And it does. 

“Sorry that I lost our love, without a reason why. Sorry that I lost our love, it really hurts sometimes,” Meg blasts out in the big hooky emotional chorus whilst having a rather er...'smashing' time. 

Relationships eh? They’re rubbish sometimes. There you both are, like happy little lambs skipping around the green grassy fields in springtime, then without knowing why you’re in the slaughterhouse and everything has been ripped apart. The video takes a different track though. Rather than finding Meg portraying the a love interest gone wrong it shows an apparently happy family home that as an adult Meg, for an unknown reason, seeks to destroy. Sad but stirring stuff.

Meg’s now signed to a major label (Atlantic), so let’s keep our fingers crossed that at some point they’ll throw some money at her and she'll come and deliver her jagged little pill of rock and emo-pop music to UK audiences as well as those in the USA. 

Meg Myers - Sorry (Video)

Meg Myers - Desire (Hucci Remix)

Wow. One of our favourite sexy but disturbing pop / rock songs of the year has got a makeover and guess what?  Brighton teenage super producer Hucci makes it even more disturbing and sexy. We’re talking loin rumbling, epic eroticism here. Whilst Meg Myers has yet to break through in the UK we could imagine this remix giving her profile the same sort of uplift that La Roux got when Skream remixed In For The Kill a few years ago. This gives us goosebumps. It also gives us the horn – woah – that’s too much information. We’ll stop now and go for a cold shower.

Meg Myers - Desire (Hucci Remix)

Meg Myers - The Morning After

Here’s the flip side of Meg Myers. Whereas the likes of Monster and Go displayed an unsettling intensity that was unusually raw in this age of musical play-safe, now we’re at The Morning After. 

“Baby, I want to fuck you, I want to feel you in my bones,” Meg belted out lustily on Desire, but now there’s the reflective regret. Backed by a gentle acoustic waltz she sings “I can't tell anyone the morning after you.” It’s still raw lyrically, but the music is quietly understated and would surely be the perfect set closer to her live show after some of the sonic aggression that has gone before. Now we just have to hope that Meg makes it onto a stage in the UK at some point this year.

The Morning After will be featured on Meg’s forthcoming EP Make A Shadow.

Meg Myers - The Morning After

Meg Myers - Go

Blimey. It’s time to rock. Another track from Meg Myers and her Make A Shadow EP and this one pulls absolutely no punches going in hard and full on. It’s got whistling, blasts of f*ck off rock guitar and by the end you can hear Meg giving herself what sounds like a very sore throat. Someone send her a packet of Strepsils please.

Remember all that ‘rock music is dead’ nonsense that us music bloggers and journalists like to go on about and debate? Well we ask anybody who is saying that now to tell Meg Myers. We suspect you wouldn’t just get a polite ‘thanks for letting me know’. We expect she’d shove her fingers violently up your nostrils and follow through with a severe kicking judging on the sound of this record.

If you want cuddly music, move on please. But those who want to get angry, thrash around, punch the wall and just tell everyone to go away, this one will do you proud.

Meg Myers - Go

Meg Myers - Desire (Video)

You can rely on Meg Myers for something slightly provocative both lyrically and visually and her latest tune Desire does exactly that. “I want to fuck you,” she sings with a direct intensity before adding later “I want to taste you, I want to skin you with my tongue, I’m gonna kill you, I’m gonna lay you in the ground.”  There’s a sexuality, a darkness and a playful craziness to Desire and its accompanying video, plus for those who want to rock there’s a thirty second guitar solo towards the end that air guitar fans will be salivating over for weeks to come.

Desire is taken from Meg’s Make A Shadow EP.

Meg Myers - Desire (Video)

Meg Myers - Heart Heart Head (Video)

Today is our last post on Breaking More Waves till next Tuesday*. There’s a bank holiday coming up and we’re taking a few days out before that. There’s a real life outside of the internet.

So we’ll leave you with this. We streamed Meg Myers’ new single Heart Heart Head back in April and now there’s a video.

Rather like her previous visual accompaniment for Curbstomp, this one’s another WTF? moment. We’re sure there’s some deep hidden meaning to it all, with Meg dragging burning branches and all of the butterflies, but we’re damned if we can work out what it is. Maybe we’re just exhausted and need a rest to put our brain back in gear.

Let us know if you ‘get’ it.

Till Tuesday….*

Edit: Due to illness the blog won't be back on Tuesday. Hopefully we'll be back later in the week.

Meg Myers - Heart Heart Head (Video)

Meg Myers - Heart Heart Head

If you’re a fan of the darker less pop side of Marina & The Diamonds or Alanis Morissette then may we suggest you take a listen to this new song by Meg Myers. “How do I fake it with another man, how do I love him on the weekend, how do I listen to another man, how do I get off on the weekend?” she sings over a mysteriously creeping backing track. It builds to a moment of raw climax as Meg decides to exercise her vocal growls in an extreme, unnerving and cathartic way. Like everything Meg has released so far it’s a tad unnerving and you can’t help but worry for her state of mind, but that’s also what makes these songs brilliant.

Heart Heart Head is the first new material from Meg since her Daughter in the Choir EP, working again with Doctor Rosen Rosen (who you may remember is half of Wanderhouse, a project that produced the stunning Use Me Up last year). Explosive and powerful it's her best work to date, this one’s on repeat. Intense.

Meg Myers - Heart Heart Head

Meg Myers - Curbstomp (Video)

Today’s video is a bit of a WTF moment.

Having previously weirded us out with Barbie in a wheelchair and scary Scrabble love antics  Meg Myers now continues further into the freak zone and confirms exactly why that we would never ever want this lady as our girlfriend.

For here is her debut video proper for the song Curbstomp – a song we originally featured on Breaking More Waves in March.

Innocent teddy bear tea parties (albeit hosted by an adult), violent multi-coloured toys and murderous bananas all feature in a visual treatment which seems to reflect the lyrical themes of a loss of innocence and someone dangerous who is “addicted to the fire.” 

And yes, despite her apparently slightly oddball mental state, we're addicted to Meg.

Meg Myers - Curbstomp (Video)

Meg Myers - Curbstomp

Having raised interest on the blog last month with her ear-grabbing mix of dark pop and rock thrills we’re pleased today to once again feature Meg Myers and a new song called Curbstomp. It features on her free to download EP Daughter In The Choir. The EP contains the songs Meg has previously uploaded to the internet plus this new one, Tennessee (featuring Doctor Rosen) and a Semothy Jones remix of Monster which takes the song to even darker depths.

Curbstomp takes the thunderous sounds of 90’s American radio friendly rock, referencing the likes of Evanescence or Alanis Morissette and brings it firmly up to date. It’s angsty low self-opinion stuff with Myers cooing that she’s a sinner, a liar, a victim and a coward over pulsing synth sounds before exchanging the innocence of being ‘a daughter in a choir’ to being ‘ready for a bad girl’. It’s just a little bit emo, but that’s to be expected from a girl who in a recent interview with Absolute Punk stated one of her plans for the year was to ‘beat depression’. Don’t let the word emo put you off though – Meg Myers packs weight with her songs and you’d be a fool not to give them a listen.

You can download the whole 7 track EP for free from this link here or if you just want Curbstomp from the Soundcloud player below.

Meg Myers - Curbstomp

Meg Myers - New Waves

Today we introduce Los Angeles dwelling Meg Myers. She’s a bit emo, a bit rock, a bit pop, a bit raw, a bit edgy and pretty damn passionate. Oh, and she’s a bit good as well. Anything we tag as ‘a bit emo’ we normally steer clear well clear of, but there’s something about Meg Myers that we really like.

We can imagine every single one of Meg’s songs that we’ve heard (there’s four of them on Soundcloud available for free download right now) sitting very comfortably on a soundtrack to the latest teen Vampire flick. Her song Monster is the perfect example. "I got to know I’m the only one for you, what have I become, I’m a fucking monster, when all I wanted was something beautiful," she sings perfectly capturing that mixture of darkness, romance and inner turmoil that is essential to such films and their audience. Teenage love / lust can also be a pretty obsessive thing and Myers certainly sounds like some sort of stalker on the brooding After You "I'm falling in deep, do you know my love is after you." Then there's this short video she shot where she get's the knives out for love. If a woman did this whilst you were in the room, you'd probably feel a little uncomfortable, irrespective of if she means it or is just playing at being a bit kooky-mental.

At different points of listening to Myers we’re reminded of Courtney Love, Avril Lavigne, The Cranberries, Paramore, Sinead O’Connor, PJ Harvey and for just a fleeting second Suzi Quatro. There's some yelping, some rocking, some ghostly cello (on Monster), some Kate Bush piano (on Adelaide) and plenty of moonlit angst for us to enjoy in an ominous way throughout these songs.

We imagine that probably Meg doesn’t flounce round in short skirts and doesn’t care for fake tan, especially as there's videos of her on You Tube playing with toy soldiers, creating battles between spiders and helicopters and with an animated Barbie in a wheelchair. What we do know is that even although emo-pop isn’t the type of sound we’d usually cover on Breaking More Waves, Meg Myers is doing it very well to the point where not posting about it is not an option. We’re not sure who first stated that there were only two types of music, good music and bad music; but whoever it was, we’re putting this very much in the good box.

Meg Myers - Adelaide

Meg Myers - Poison



Meg Myers - After You



Meg Myers - Monster (Video)