Archive for the Folkish category
St. Vincent
by teabog on April 14th, 2007
St. Vincent
“Now. Now.” (From the album Marry Me)
This young lady kinda sounds like Annie Lenox, only much less annoying. Her name is Annie Clark, and she plays a lot of instruments. She’s played guitar with the Polyphonic Spree and with Sufjan Stevens.
The song is pretty, pastoral. Hell of a springtime song, with big, sweet-sounding orchestral and children’s choir flourishes against Clark’s strong but simple vocal line eventually give way to some wonderfully out of place guitar distortion. If the songs streaming on her myspace are any indication, I’m really looking forward to her album. The base of her songwriting is this sort of wannabe Fiona Apple bluesy girl-with-a-piano stuff but then every song’s got something about it that’s completely fucked up and unexpected. Also, Brian Teasley from Man or Astro-man is gonna be on it.