All Born Screaming

Pitchfork 7.8/10 Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album goes for a hard reset on the St. Vincent project. She retains her sharp edge as a songwriter while making the music sound exalting, inspiring, and thoroughly romantic.

A.V. Club A- Annie Clark's seventh studio album as St. Vincent is a sonic collage of the past 50 years of pop and rock.

The Needle Drop 6/10 An unfocused album from Annie, but not without its share of daring highlights.

NME 4/5 In ditching the artifice, Annie Clark has made her most generous and open statement yet.

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 All Born Screaming demonstrates a rare excellence at setting and maintaining mood. It is the sound of being left alone with one’s own mind, and though the album traverses different sounds, collaborators and motifs, it never lets up from exposing the potential for terror inherent in such a reality.

Rolling Stone 4/5 Annie Clark's seventh album is at once scary and thrilling.

Dork 5/5 The finished result is an album that confidently states Annie Clark as one of the greatest songwriters around while, in her renewed zest for her own authenticity, the scope of what already seemed to be boundless talent feels like it has even more potential; the sky is no longer the limit.

DIY 5/5 If she is to be known by one record, let it be ‘All Born Screaming’.

The Independent 4/5 Annie Clark’s seventh album under her St Vincent persona is the heaviest, and perhaps most unsettling, to date.

All Music 4.5/5 Clark has more than earned the freedom she gives herself to express so many different sides to her music, and it's a thrill to hear her stretch out on these ferocious, heartbroken, and ultimately life-affirming songs.

The Skinny 4/5 Annie Clark still has surprises to offer on St. Vincent's seventh album, the enigmatic and experimental All Born Screaming.

Under The Radar 8.0/10 All Born Screaming thrills for its directness, its momentum, and, crucially, its replayability.

Clash 9/10 There’s not a second wasted on the album’s taut track list, the songwriter managing to balance her teenage inspirations simultaneously, go back to basics, and break new ground all at once.

Mojo 4/5 Seventh album from Annie Clark brings darkness, then light.

The Observer 4/5 Recreating the noises in her head, Annie Clark’s first fully self-produced album ranges across styles and emotions, and is her most direct yet.

Distorted Sound 8/10 All Born Screaming covers a hell of a lot of ground. Its furtive darting between NINE INCH NAILS-inspired industrial pop, starkly minimalist indie and more is sustained and kept coherent through ST. VINCENT’s own shapeshifting nature over previous albums.

Slant 4.5/5 A visceral examination of art and nature when both are pushed to the brink.

Pop Matters 7/10 On All Born Screaming, St. Vincent suggests the end of life is really just a new beginning. Love is the purpose. There is no joy without pain.

The Guardian 5/5 Are we finally seeing the real Annie Clarke? Replacing alter egos with raw immediacy, she delivers one of her best albums: restlessly inventive and packed with ideas.

Spectrum Culture 76% Clark has always been more of a storyteller than a memoirist, and All Born Screaming finds her getting back to communicating something human as opposed to something about her.

Beats Per Minute 84% Instead of digging in and continuing this trend of moderate, polite urban indie pop, All Born Screaming represents a bold shift of sonic palette. It is a more versatile, abrasive and memorable record than anything St. Vincent from the past decade.

The Telegraph 5/5 All Born Screaming is an art-rock classic for the ages.

The Irish Times 3.5/5 Annie Clark’s first self-produced album sees singer-songwriter nod to the influence of David Bowie.

Uncut 9/10 All Born Screaming introduces a new Annie Clarke, as she discards her icily cerebral persona and becomes nakedly feral.

Hot Press 8.0/10 In the search for her own sonic vocabulary, the singer has crafted a raw but sonically perfect record.