Kevin Bronson on January 20th, 2012

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There was a certain emotional veracity exuded by songstresses from the ’90s that has been diluted in (most) artists of the generations that followed. The suffocating effects of postmodernism? The bitch-slap immediacy of the Internet age? Maybe one of our learned essayists can do a think piece. Or maybe it’s just me. Anyway, something about Meg Myers reminds me more of the likes of Corin Tucker, Sinead O’Connor, PJ Harvey and Dolores O’Riordan than any of her contemporaries. The L.A.-based singer-songwriter, whose bio tells us she hails from Tennessee, used to be a Jehovah’s Witness and never went to high school, is about to unleash an EP of sharp stuff. It’s music she fashioned with L.A.producer-songwriter Doctor Rosen Rosen, who first came onto our radar in 2009 when he remixed/re-orchestrated Lily Allen’s album “It’s Not Me, It’s You,” and who since has gone on remix the likes of Drake, Phoenix, Britney Spears and La Roux and work with some other A-listers. Myers first surfaced with the track “Poison” on a four-song EP Rosen made with four different singers, but the spare, orchestral “Monster” is a beast.

||| Download: “Monster”

||| Download: “Poison”

||| Also: Download the rest of Doctor Rosen Rosen’s “Girls” EP here.

Photo by Amanda Rae Stephens

||| Also: After the jump, check out the video for “Monster”: