St. Vincent
Singer/songwriter/guitar-shredder Annie Clark\'s fourth studio album as St. Vincent is, simply, her best yet. While her catalog is full of twists and turns, including 2013 David Byrne collaboration *Love This Giant*, this self-titled release is both audacious *and* accessible, a canny balancing of Clark\'s experimental leanings with her pop sensibility. Amid a flurry of sonic textures ranging from the clamoring horn section of \"Digital Witness\" to the subdued balladry of \"Prince Johnny,\" Clark critiques our technology-obsessed culture (\"Huey Newton\"), satirizes suburban ennui (\"Birth in Reverse\"), and shares about her love for her mother (\"I Prefer Your Love\"). Her anxieties laid bare, the songwriter asserts herself via pyrotechnic guitar riffs, rhythmic somersaults, and a wayfaring vocal range, resulting in a vertiginous set that\'s as dizzying as it is captivating.
Over the course of four albums, St. Vincent's Annie Clark has been focusing her vision and sharpening her music's edges. St. Vincent is in a sense the Platonic ideal of a St. Vincent record, executing with perfect poise everything we already know she can do.
Mere seconds into St. Vincent’s new, bracingly brilliant self-titled album, it becomes clear that the defining moment of Annie Clark’s career is no longer her 2007 debut as her Catechism-indebted nom de plume, but rather her 2012 collaboration with David Byrne on Love This Giant. Clark’s proximity to the former…
Annie Clark’s self-titled fourth album is the definitive St. Vincent experience, engineered to perfection and stuffed to the gills with bold, fascinating hooks.
That Annie Clark’s new album as St. Vincent is self-titled is no aberration, no cop-out in the face of vacant inspiration.
Annie Clark began recording St. Vincent almost immediately after she finished touring in support of Love This Giant, her inspired collaboration with David Byrne.
Annie Clark’s work as St. Vincent has always bore the hallmarks of a restlessly inventive artist, with a magpie ability to mix her rock and pop lineages at will, but it’s on this – her fourth full-length – that Clark’s fickle allegiances are truly honed, producing something that feels simultaneously coherent and generically adventurous.
"Oh what an ordinary day/ take out the garbage, masturbate," goes the opening line to "Birth In Reverse," the first single off of St. Vincent's (a.k.a. Annie Clark) self-titled fourth album.
Last fall, Annie Clark emerged from 18 long months on the road-which included the Strange Mercy tour and her Love This Giant gigs with David Byrne-ready to work.
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Annie Clark's fourth St Vincent album, mixing funk, electro and epic songs, is her most accessible work to date, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
Review Of The New LP From St.Vincent. St.Vincent's self-titled album comes out on 2/25 on Loma Vista/Republic. The first single is "Digital Witness".
<p>Annie Clark's fifth album is a taut, meticulous triumph, blessed with a wealth of fantastic songs, ideas and sounds, writes <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong></p>
St. Vincent - St. Vincent review: A challenging art pop album that convincingly balances the beautiful with the ugly, and ultimately stays human despite its futuristic leanings.
There is much to admire on St Vincent's clever, funky and sexy fourth album, says Helen Brown – and the songs are the strongest she's written to date
Annie Clark's fourth album is her strongest and strangest work yet. By Lisa-Marie Ferla