St. Vincent by St. Vincent
St. Vincent is the self-titled fourth studio album by American musician Annie Clark, known by her stage name St. Vincent. It was released on February 24, 2014, in the United Kingdom and February 25 in the United States, through Loma Vista and Republic Records. The album, which was produced by John Congleton, features collaborations from Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings drummer Homer Steinweiss and Midlake drummer McKenzie Smith. The tracks on the album were arranged and demoed by Clark in Austin, Texas, before being recorded at Elmwood Studios.
Pushing past the GRAMMY®-winning art rock of 2014’s <i>St. Vincent</i>, <i>Masseduction</i> finds Annie Clark teaming up with Jack Antonoff (as well as Kendrick Lamar collaborator Sounwave) for a pop masterpiece that radiates and revels in paradox—vibrant yet melancholy, cunning yet honest, friendly yet confrontational, deeply personal yet strangely inscrutable. She moves from synthetic highs to towering power-ballad comedowns (“Pills”), from the East Coast (the unforgettable “New York”) to “Los Ageless”, where, amid a bramble of strings and woozy electronics, she admits, “I try to write you a love song/But it comes out a lament”.
