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When Annie Clark—the 27-year-old Texan who performs as St. Vincent—plays live, her small frame is nearly hidden from view by her guitar. Her eyes swoop around under a mop of black hair as she croons, her dreamy retro pop frequently riddled with frantic blasts of fuzzy guitar, her string-bean-legged stomps punctuating the music at its most dissonant. These moments of sudden ferocity are the best parts of her concerts, and they provided her 2007 debut, Marry Me, with enough grit to keep it from slipping into the ether of gauzy-voiced indie darlings. Her second album, Actor, plays to this strength, almost to a fault. Most of its 11 tracks start quietly, Clark’s lovely voice—like a more sprightly, less insufferably self-obsessed Tori Amos—unfurling over piano plinks, synth pumps and looped choirs of herself. Meanwhile, a tight-chested panic seeps in, builds and eventually erupts into swarms...
When Annie Clark—the 27-year-old Texan who performs as St. Vincent—plays live, her small frame is nearly hidden from view by her guitar. Her eyes swoop around under a mop of black hair as she croons, her dreamy retro pop frequently riddled with frantic blasts of fuzzy guitar, her string-bean-legged stomps punctuating the music at its most dissonant. These moments of sudden ferocity are the best parts of her concerts, and they provided her 2007 debut, Marry Me, with enough grit to keep it from slipping into the ether of gauzy-voiced indie darlings. Her second album, Actor, plays to this strength, almost to a fault. Most of its 11 tracks start quietly, Clark’s lovely voice—like a more sprightly, less insufferably self-obsessed Tori Amos—unfurling over piano plinks, synth pumps and looped choirs of herself. Meanwhile, a tight-chested panic seeps in, builds and eventually erupts into swarms...
- 5/4/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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