Try to Write You a Love Song - A St. Vincent Thread

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Just noticed who started this thread. All becomes clear.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean, chum.

[Norah]

Just noticed who started this thread. All becomes clear.

You don't mean that. Say you're sorry.

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Just noticed who started this thread. All becomes clear.

You don't mean that. Say you're sorry.

Also, I'm sorry I didn't react to this post. Which is just outstanding.

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Hey Stip,

“Annie Clark creates these lavish, over-ripe arrangements partly so she can hide knives inside them.”
— Apt description of St. Vincent’s music from a 2011 Pitchfork article

[stip]

That's a pretty cool description.

I was actually listening to her S/T album today.

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Specific names (Chloe, Elijah) and times ("Year of the Tiger", "Champagne Year") give the sense that Strange Mercy exists in its own universe. As does its music, which skips through art-rock touchstones from Talking Heads to Kate Bush to Peter Gabriel without relinquishing a bit of its originality. After all, those artists were trying to create new sounds, an ever-more-difficult task in a culture steeped in its own detritus. Here, Clark's role-playing is grounded in emotions that are as cryptic as they are genuine and affecting. And when her voice can't bear it, her guitar does the screaming.

Maybe one of my favorite things written about her and her music (from the Pitchfork review of Strange Mercy). The portion in bold being my particular favorite.

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That's a pretty cool description.

I was actually listening to her S/T album today.

Have you listened to any of her other albums?

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YES!

At best, St. Vincent has a mischievous curiosity about texture (and explosions) that feels almost childlike. Recently my 8 year-old cousin asked me, with a wicked twinkle in his eye, if I'd ever microwaved a banana. I'm terrified to try, but I'm sure whatever happens—splattering, abrupt, radioactive—sounds exactly like an Annie Clark guitar solo.

Again, from a Pitchfork review of the S/T album.

[stip]

That's a pretty cool description.

I was actually listening to her S/T album today.

Have you listened to any of her other albums?

Just that song Chud keeps drafting.


These are great descriptions from believers. If you listen to me write about lightning bolt and you're a fan it'll ring true. If you're McParadigm it'll sound like nonsense.

I'm somewhere in between.

[Heathen]

These are great descriptions from believers. If you listen to me write about lightning bolt and you're a fan it'll ring true. If you're McParadigm it'll sound like nonsense.

That's every review ever written.

[Jorge]

True... true

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That's a pretty cool description.

I was actually listening to her S/T album today.

Have you listened to any of her other albums?

Just that song Chud keeps drafting.


These are great descriptions from believers. If you listen to me write about lightning bolt and you're a fan it'll ring true. If you're McParadigm it'll sound like nonsense.

I'm somewhere in between.

I wonder if you wouldn't gain a bit more ground by giving her first album a few spins.

[stip]

Possibly. How many does she have?

Also, do you have the live recording of that Dixie Chicks song you drafted last tournament? I bought the studio version and it's kind of flat.

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Possibly. How many does she have?

Also, do you have the live recording of that Dixie Chicks song you drafted last tournament? I bought the studio version and it's kind of flat.

There are four St. Vincent albums. Marry Me is the first. Actor is the second. Strange Mercy is the third (and my favorite), then S/T.

She also did an album with David Byrne. But I haven't listened to that one yet. I have no idea what it's like.

And, no, I don't have a live recording of that song. Sorry. I only posted that clip because I couldn't find the studio version on YouTube. Also, I really love the studio version. I don't find anything flat about it. But I knew that version first, so that probably has a lot to do with it.

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[Jorge]

http://www.stereogum.com/1701747/watch- ... est/video/

French people are dicks.

[Heathen]

These Kate Bush quotes are pretty great.

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Q: Were you as interested in writing songs at that point?

Annie ClarkI like to use the phrase “I’ve never practiced a day in my life. I only ever play.” How I learned to play guitar was to take songs that I liked from my favorite bands, which at that time were Nirvana, Pearl Jam and a whole host of classic rock bands. The guitar teacher would teach me the songs I wanted to learn. But midway through learning a song I would get a little disinterested and start to write my own song out of the rabbit hole of someone else’s. So I’ve been writing since I was 12 too.

http://www.ascap.com/playback/2014/10/f ... nts-ascent