March 30, 2009

New St. Vincent - "Actor Out Of Work"

So far Annie Clark's new album's made waves in a few big bursts: First the extremely facial album art, next the fairy tale-cum-fuzz pedal delirium of the fantastic lead MP3 "The Strangers." By Annie standards Actor's pseudo-title track "Actor Out Of Work" is a relatively straight forward stomping rocker, though chords move with music school smarts and the riffs augment and distend in clever ways, and the embellishments come via ghostly backing vocals and twinkling keys, and yeah even when it's relatively straight-forward St. Vincent's still deceptively clever rock. Hear it at Hype. Or try this video of Ms. Clark rehearsing the tune with her band for NPR down in Austin:

Actor is out 5/5 on 4AD.

Posted at 3:01 PM by amrit in MP3, Video
Tags: St. Vincent

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10 Comments

She put on a good show at SXSW, looking forward to the new album.

Posted by: Chuck at 03/30/09 3:06 PM | Reply
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Really super excited for this album. Also, who thinks this actor out of work's name is John, the same John who didn't want to do what Mary and Joseph did without the kid?

Posted by: Ron Jenkins

at 03/30/09 3:48 PM | Reply
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So far I am loving these first two singles. I have high hopes for this album, can't wait for it.

Posted by: Brian at 03/30/09 4:33 PM | Reply
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her show at antone's during sxsw was hands down the best set i saw all week. totally unexpected and wonderful. can't wait to hear the album.

Posted by: eli Scheer at 03/30/09 6:11 PM | Reply
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does anyone know how her show at antone's was?

Posted by: Ron Jenkins

at 03/30/09 7:11 PM | Reply
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Ron, it was unexpected and wonderful. Can't wait to hear the album.

Seriously though, I saw her at Central Presbyterian and Antone's that week. Central Presb was a good show, but they seemed more settled into the set at Antone's and tore it up. That show was definitely one of my sx highlights.

Posted by: DragonForce at 03/30/09 8:18 PM | Reply
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she is amazing, finally got to see her live after all this time waiting, hope to see her again at austin

Posted by: charalito09 at 04/01/09 9:05 AM | Reply
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The album leaked! And it's superb!!! Anyone Knows if the Album Art is a work of Miranda July?

Posted by: Alexandre Rabelo at 04/06/09 12:53 AM | Reply
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Superb yes thats the word

Posted by: charalito09 in reply to Alexandre Rabelo's comment at 04/06/09 6:37 PM | Reply
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I couldnt resist getting the album.
Its more mature in some ways then her first one.
I like the writing on this album - i think its better - but musicwise its more accesible.
I hear m,ore sufjan in there.

Posted by: Sandervw7 at 04/12/09 4:06 AM | Reply
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