if they tour the uk, I'll def be there.
― where is el airoporto? (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://sickmouthy.com/2013/03/21/st-vincent-actor-2009/
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.music-man.com/instruments/guitars/st-vincent.html
Looks pretty sick
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Nice, I was wondering what that was when she played it with Taylor Swift the other night.I don't usually go for Music Man's body shapes (esp. the albert lee. I don't understand how that guitar continues to get produced), but this looks cool.
― how's life, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-taylor-swift-perform-explosive-live-cover-with-beck-st-vincent-20150826
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 August 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Isn't the Albert Lee what she usually plays?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 27 August 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it's really just one of my least favorite guitar shapes.
― how's life, Thursday, 27 August 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
I like St. Vincent, and I love the original of this, so I really wish that I liked this cover more, but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOzC_q4357c
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Saturday, 13 February 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
A new song from Ms. Clark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n48vQgfXygc
― Vinnie, Friday, 30 June 2017 10:06 (seven years ago) link
Giving me some Actor vibes but . . . more earnest and direct?
― mthrn, Friday, 30 June 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
really nice
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Friday, 30 June 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
Woah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJb3lTNRtA8
― piscesx, Monday, 14 January 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
I knew it would be that song before I hit play.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 January 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
At Sundance next year:
The Nowhere Inn / U.S.A. (Director: Bill Benz, Screenwriters: Carrie Brownstein, Annie Clark, Producers: Jett Steiger, Lana Kim, Annie Clark, Carrie Brownstein) — When St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, the goal is to both reveal and revel in the unadorned truth behind her on-stage persona. But when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre. Cast: Annie Clark, Carrie Brownstein. World Premiere
Hmm
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
new single is uhhhhhh
not good
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
For anyone else that is interested, I think it's this? Maybe I've been out of the game for a while, but she is completely unrecognizable to me, here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUTu65AXrJw
New album, "Daddy's Home"
― hourspass, Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
Also, not to double post, but I get really weird sort of Momus-y vibes from this.
― hourspass, Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
The song writing seems to exist as a pretext for the high concept and visual aesthetic and the sound design. Or is that harsh?
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, this does not get me super excited about the new one, but hard to imagine I won't like some of it considering how much I love the rest of her catalog. I mean, it feels increasingly like leaning into the high concept/visual aesthetic thing is just as big as the new music she's making with each cycle.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
maybe but that's been my sense with her stuff for a few cycles now
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
Prob need to investigate her more, and probably hear her live, but what I've heard just sounds like an 80s prince side project production.
― candyman, Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
I love her and I'm very excited for this record
― winters (josh), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
extremely blatant bowie/prince homage, misses the mark
― akm, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
could grow on me though. wonder what the rest of the album sounds like
― akm, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
young americans is my least fave classic bowie era
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
here she comes to clog up the EOYs again
― imago, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
“The song writing seems to exist as a pretext for the high concept and visual aesthetic and the sound design. Or is that harsh?“
Not only is it not harsh its most music these days, with low budget types relegated to Instagram for their visual concepts. Music is just a vessel for individual personality: all artists have been reduced to influencers/content creators
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
other than the outfit it doesn't sound like young americans, it seems more Lodger-ish to me. But what it mostly reminds me of is Midnight Vultures which is an album I never return to.
― akm, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
tbh I never cared for Lodgers much, lol and I do not like Midnight Vultures either
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
The Beck comparison is apt, I think they share they same tolerance of the vapid where it aligns with the haircut. But then probably people said that about Bowie, and particularly his plastic soul iteration.
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
what i did hear of her, she made me think of what prince protege jill jones might have made if she made more albums.
but also kinda over produced. a lot of 80s production touches i dont need to be brought back.
all of this makes me want to check her out properly though.
im a sucker for people with agreeable references that align into something vapid.
― candyman, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
the single cover looks like Tina Fey's character from Date Night when she's pretending to be a Russian prostitute
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
the song itself is all right
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
"other than the outfit it doesn't sound like young americans, it seems more Lodger-ish to me."
It's a pretty straight 'Fame' pastiche, no?
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
I like it. Seems shaggier and looser than she usually works.
Concept seems to be veering into US Girls territory.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
My FB friends seem to all love it.
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
I'm 100% on board with it. Let it play on a loop about 15 times earlier, but I still haven't watched the video, which I gather might be a distraction.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
also idg all the Bowie name-dropping people are doing. This sounds like Sly Stone and Eurythmics and a smidge of Nikka Costa.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
again, that's mainly driven by the aesthetics of the video which look like a slew of videos bowie made in the very late 70's
― akm, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
i think, anyway
and the fact it sounds like Fame.
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
I've listened to Fame a thousand times. These two songs don't sound like each other.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
Fame is a tight guitar driven song. This sloshes around a bit. Actually reminds me of 'All I Wanna Do' by Sheryl Crow:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGr6i5Sar5s
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
...and throw in a word or two that rhyme with "fame".
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
It sounds like "Fame"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
She looks a LOT like a well-known blonde actress in this video, but I can't think of whom. Cathy Moriarty? idk
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
The first few notes of the bass synth sound like 'Sweet Dreams'. But the lyrics are about what exactly? I suppose they make as much sense as Lou Reed's 'Lady Day'. But the comparison I keep coming back to is Muse:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rf1Sj6EIFELyrics that sound weighty but mean nothing (Bellamy is singing about his guitar yeah right), instrumental twiddlyness, style over substance, appearance over communicating anything.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
FB ads are informing that she's offering online classes on prepared guitar techniques these days??
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
Do you mean the Masterclass course?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link