Posts Tagged ‘St. Vincent’
St. Vincent’s album Masseduction is an identity crisis that lacks a breakthrough
By the time the end of the year comes around, 2017 will most likely be remembered for a year of puzzling rollout campaigns from artists whose work seemed to rise above all extravagance inherent in self-promotion. Arcade Fire took this to the extreme, but St. Vincent (better known as Annie Clark) also flirted with this…
Read MoreTouching tribute to troubled Van Gogh
Loving Vincent a stunning tribute to artist Vincent Van Gogh’s life and creativity. The story is told entirely through 12 of his own paintings; unlike any Van Gogh film before it, this is a production the world didn’t know it needed. Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, it is the first film in cinematic…
Read MoreTunes review: St. Vincent — Strange Mercy
Following the thick, billowing shroud of 2009’s Actor, subversive, sensual indie-folk sweetheart Annie Clark—better known by the liturgical moniker of St. Vincent—returns with an album of ferocious, saw-toothed exhibition. Strange Mercy, Clark’s newest album, is biting and sudden. Where Actor was an expansive, cloudy waxing of post-modern poetics, Strange Mercy is an exercise in…
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