Band: St. Vincent
Album: Actor (2009)
Label: 4ad
This post may be quite bias, because I'm pretty sure I'm in love with Annie Clark. How many female musicians do you know that have an angelic voice, but can shred a guitar straight nasty? There's not many. Not only is she gorgeous and supercool, but most importantly incredibly talented. Annie is the former guitar player for the Polyphonic Spree, road guitar player for Sufjan Stevens, and the delightfully eclectic front-woman for St. Vincent.
Annie created most of the music on her newest album Actor in her Brooklyn apartment by watching mainly Criterion Collection and Disney films on mute and scoring them through headphones and Garageband software. Later, she went back and made sense of everything and added lyrics before hitting the studio. Each song is a different scene, more or less, from films that range everywhere from Disney classics to darker, violent films (Badlands, Pierrot le Fou, The Wizard of Oz, Stardust Memories, Sleeping Beauty - to name a few). In her own words, she wanted to make something that was "whimsical, yet disgusting" and credits the woodwind section of her music to the whimsy and her guitar as the "digusting beast." Over both beauty and the beast is her very entrancing vocals. Somehow, this three-headed monster emerged with delightful elegance and eerie beauty.
Here are some videos to let her speak for herself:
Annie created most of the music on her newest album Actor in her Brooklyn apartment by watching mainly Criterion Collection and Disney films on mute and scoring them through headphones and Garageband software. Later, she went back and made sense of everything and added lyrics before hitting the studio. Each song is a different scene, more or less, from films that range everywhere from Disney classics to darker, violent films (Badlands, Pierrot le Fou, The Wizard of Oz, Stardust Memories, Sleeping Beauty - to name a few). In her own words, she wanted to make something that was "whimsical, yet disgusting" and credits the woodwind section of her music to the whimsy and her guitar as the "digusting beast." Over both beauty and the beast is her very entrancing vocals. Somehow, this three-headed monster emerged with delightful elegance and eerie beauty.
Here are some videos to let her speak for herself:
No comments:
Post a Comment