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In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Vincent at Glastonbury Festival Rock pop art rock indie rock. Musician singer songwriter record producer. Vocals guitar bass keyboards percussion. References [ change change source ]. When she was five, her mother gave her a red plastic guitar from a Target store for Christmas. She left after three years, feeling that art institutions such as Berklee were sometimes focused more on the aesthetics of art than the product.

The things they can teach you are quantifiable. While all that is good and has its place, at some point you have to learn all you can and then forget everything that you learned in order to actually start making music. Shortly after leaving Berklee, she returned home to Texas, where she joined the Polyphonic Spree just before they embarked on a European tour.

In , she began recording a studio album under the stage name St. The name is also a reference to her great-grandmother, whose middle name was St. Named after a line from the television sitcom Arrested Development , [ 28 ] it features appearances from drummer Brian Teasley Man or Astro-man? The album was well received by critics, who compared Clark to the likes of Kate Bush and David Bowie [ 29 ] and lauded the album for its arrangements, themes and style.

In their review, The A. Club said: "There's a point where too much happiness turns into madness, and St. Vincent's multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark knows this place well". Her inspiration reportedly came from several films, including Disney movies: "Well, the truth is that I had come back from a pretty long — you know, about a year-and-a-half of touring, and so my brain was sort of all circuit boards that were a little bit fried", Clark said.

And then it started to just really inform the entire record. Clark said she imagined soundtracks for certain scenes in films when writing the music and lyrics, [ 33 ] including scenes in Snow White and The Wizard of Oz Although it spawned no singles except in the UK, where " Actor Out of Work " was issued as a 7" vinyl single , music videos for "Marrow" and "Actor Out of Work" were released, and aired on several music channels.

Two soundtracks for The Twilight Saga have featured Clark's songs. Rager , which prominently samples "The Strangers", the opening song on Actor. Clark spent much of her time in Seattle writing her third album, Strange Mercy , in October He offered me the space for a month, for all of October. I was alone. I stayed at the Ace Hotel downtown, in one of the rooms with a shared bathroom.

I would just get up in the morning and caffeinate, and run, and go to the studio for 12 hours, come back, eat dinner alone with a book, have a glass of wine, and go to bed. And do it all over again. On July 4, Clark stated via Twitter that if enough followers tweeted the hashtag " strangemercy", she would release a track from the album. On July 22, after the threshold was met, she released "Surgeon" for download and streaming on her official website.

The album was released September 13, Strange Mercy received widespread acclaim from music critics. It achieved an overall rating of 8. It was St. Vincent's highest-charting album yet, peaking at No. In , Clark composed "Proven Badlands", an instrumental piece based on "The Sequel" from her sophomore release Actor, for ensemble Music's album Beautiful Mechanical.

On June 14, , "Who", the first single from her collaboration with David Byrne , formerly of Talking Heads , was released. The single came from their album Love This Giant , which was released September 11, On May 28, , David Byrne and St. Vincent released Brass Tactics , which includes a previously unreleased Love This Giant bonus track, two remixes, and two live tracks.

Vincent , [ 58 ] The second single, " Digital Witness ", was released in January , [ 59 ] and the album was released the next month to critical acclaim. A demo of " Teenage Talk ", a track she had previously recorded but that was not included on her eponymous album, [ 67 ] premiered on the HBO series Girls on March 10, On April 12, , it was announced that Clark would make her film directorial debut helming one of the segments of the women-directed anthology horror film XX.

In June , St. Vincent released " New York ", the lead single from her fifth album. Vincent's first album to peak in the top ten of the chart, selling 29, units in its first week.

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Clark was Record Store Day 's ambassador for , making her its first female ambassador. Tour , a second tour promoting the album, which took her to perform at Coachella in April. One of her performances, "Slow Disco", inspired the release of a new rendition of the track titled "Fast Slow Disco" in June. Vincent collaborated with the American rock band Sleater-Kinney to produce their ninth studio album, The Center Won't Hold , which was released the following year.

Vincent collaborated with Japanese musician Yoshiki to release a classical arrangement of "New York". Vincent's online instruction class on Creativity and Songwriting was added to the MasterClass series. Vincent was featured on the track "Chalk Tablet Towers" from the first season of the Song Machine project by Gorillaz. On December 15, , St.

Vincent announced she would be releasing her sixth studio album in The album's first single " Pay Your Way in Pain " was released March 4, , along with a music video. The album's second single "The Melting of the Sun" was released April 1, , alongside a lyric video. Two days later St. Vincent starred in the psychological thriller film The Nowhere Inn , featuring a script written by her and Carrie Brownstein , about a fictional attempt to make a documentary on St.

Vincent's musical career. Additionally, she wrote the film's soundtrack, releasing on digital streaming services on September 17, , and later on limited vinyl on April 23, , as part of Record Store Day. Vincent released her cover of Lipps Inc. Vincent performed in the music documentary film Yoshiki: Under the Sky. On February 29, , St.

Vincent released "Broken Man", the lead single from her seventh studio album All Born Screaming which was released on April 26, A profile in The New York Times after the album's release noted: "Seven albums and 17 years into an acclaimed solo career, Clark has eked out a singular space in music, occasionally intersecting with the mainstream but for the most part staying uncompromisingly countercultural," labeling tracks from the new release "some of the heaviest, darkest and weirdest St.

Vincent music to date. I want something to feel dangerous'". On November 15, , St. I think any person who gets panic attacks or has an anxiety disorder can understand how things can all of a sudden turn very quickly. I think I'm sublimating that into the music. Her music also often features violins, cellos, flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and other instruments.

Vincent guitar. It was originally released in as the St. Vincent HHH with three mini-humbuckers in a signature Vincent Blue finish, a paint color which Clark herself had personally hand-mixed and selected, as well as in Black. Vincent HH signature model was released in featuring two humbuckers in place of the three mini-humbuckers on the original.

In , a new St. Vincent Goldie signature model was released, featuring three gold foil mini-humbucker pickups, a reverse matching finish headstock, redesigned pickguard shape in 3-ply parchment, a roasted maple neck, and stainless steel frets. David Byrne , with whom she collaborated and toured, said of her: "Despite having toured with her for almost a year, I don't think I know her much better, at least not on a personal level Mystery is not a bad thing for a beautiful, talented young woman or man to embrace.

And she does it without seeming to be standoffish or distant. When asked during a interview with Rolling Stone whether she identified as gay or straight, Clark responded: "I don't think about those words. I believe in gender fluidity and sexual fluidity. I don't really identify as anything. I think you can fall in love with anybody. I don't have anything to hide but I'd rather the emphasis be on music.

In May , Clark's father was convicted of one count of conspiracy, seven counts of wire fraud, five counts of securities fraud, and one count of money laundering. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Wikidata item.

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