St. Vincent - a.k.a. Annie Clark;

― christoff, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

She should call her band The Grenadines.

― jaymc, Friday, 21 March 2008 17:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

That "diminutive minx" post is really something.

― nabisco, Friday, 21 March 2008 17:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

Is Christoff Squirrel Police?

― Lolpez, Friday, 21 March 2008 18:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

do yourself a favor and get to one of her shows.
i like the album, but it was nothing compared to the live show.
it was one of those ones that makes you go back to and like the recordings infinitely more.

oh, & her guitar is the sex.

― srslyghengiskhan, Saturday, 22 March 2008 02:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

lol @ diminutive minx & guitar is the sex. this thread is weird.

anyway, im enjoying the new album

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 12:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

new album better than debut album

― akm, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 13:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

the exact kind of album which is know is good but it's just not my cup of tea

― Zeno, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 13:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

SFJ in the New Yorker luvs him some St. Vincent with blog and notebook posts

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2009/05/annie-clark.html

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 May 2009 17:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

xtc influence ...hmmm, could be good

― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 May 2009 13:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

this record really is pretty darn good

was v surprised to see her on letterman

― badpowderfinger (electricsound), Monday, 10 August 2009 03:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

actually, letterman is fairly consistent when it comes to booking good musical guests.

― borntohula, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

kinda surprised by this record.i like 'the party' a whole lot.

― cherry blossom, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

there's something about her style that seems not to make big waves or grab loads of attention, but everything she does is terrific, and it's nice to see that she seems to have this gradual accretion of people who realize that. just slowly, steadily getting bigger and better.

― nabisco, Monday, 10 August 2009 18:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

isn't it odd she hasn't made it bigger though? first of the sufjan connection (or is this a bad thing now?) plus the hot minx thing seems like decent enough premises.

the letterman performance was really good yes.

― sonderangerbot, Monday, 10 August 2009 18:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

I don't know -- I can actually see how, when people read descriptions of her records, they might not find a hook that's really pressing or motivating. The Sufjan connection is probably a negative, in that sense: it's possible that people think, you know, "singer-songwriter," "nice arrangements," "Sufjan side player," umm, let's just say it's easy to imagine those things adding up to a common variety of run-of-the-mill record nobody rushes out to buy. It's tough when your hook is that you're just really good at what you're doing, because people sort of have to take someone's word on that.

I think what tends to really prove it with her is live stuff, and to be honest she's one of few acts going where there are web videos of her performances I will actually go back to and watch again, periodically, just because she's that good -- the Pitchfork.tv "Cemetery Gates" thing with her is superb and (I think) better than the album, with a lot more breathing room; and the way she used to do "Paris Is Burning" solo is just terrific to watch. She covered "I Dig a Pony" for that Takeaway Show series, or something, and that one gets me. There's something about her performing that's really special and pretty far beyond what she gets on record, in my opinion.

― nabisco, Monday, 10 August 2009 18:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

actually, letterman is fairly consistent when it comes to booking good musical guests.

haha after a week with multiple dave matthews performances she was a major breath of fresh air

― badpowderfinger (electricsound), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

I should probably give this more time, but every time I check her out I start thinking about Miranda July's "Me and You and Everyone We Know" and I get a little sick and have to turn it off.

― dlp9001, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

eep. i hate that movie.

i almost saw her open for another act two years ago, but based on the sufjan connection GF and i gave her a pass. maybe we shouldn't've?

― amateurist, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

i love her and hate sufjan fwiw

― badpowderfinger (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

AC played guitar for me on a tour a few years back and I can say with no doubt she is one of the most talented things going. So smart+wild soul. Killer player. Killer lady.

― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

i like this Actor LP a lot on 1st listen. reminds me of the first Bird And The Bee LP. not heard her earlier stuff yet tho. and i think i hate sufjan so...

― unban dictionary (blueski), Sunday, 6 September 2009 20:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

I just got into Actor this week too. I think I must have been confusing her first album with something else I heard at the time, something more floaty and folky and whatever. I went back after discovering how much I liked Actor and ended up liking Marry Me too.

And now I'm mad because I spent two years not listening to the first album because I confused it with something lame.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 September 2009 20:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

here's that letterman performance ftr - you still don't get anything this brilliantly weird on the jonathan ross show

― unban dictionary (blueski), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 18:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

I like this loads.

Yes, I am playing Last.fm/Spotify bingo but it's leading me to lots of nice things. One of those spiderweb connection things that occasionally actually works.

― ...and the wizard blew his horn (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 14:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

i like it

― DustyLoops, Monday, 12 October 2009 00:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

who was/is bear bear bear?

― akm, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

castanets

― sound of contusion (electricsound), Monday, 12 October 2009 04:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

Awesome guitar sound on track 7.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 12 October 2009 08:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

So my DIS-contributing friend told me about this record. And how it's like the best thing released all year.

On first listen, it's not far off. Brilliant stuff.

― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Monday, 14 December 2009 17:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

there are some records i just feel too protective of to want to allow other people to listen to

this is kinda one of them

― Karen Tregaskin, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

(He actually linked me Southall's blog, which really did convince me to give this a go, so chalk another one off, Nick!)

this does feel like some amazing genre-transcending secret

― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Monday, 14 December 2009 17:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

So she's more than just a female version of that bearded American indie stuff beloved on National Public Radio? I've only done quick listens online so far.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, whatever you think it sounds like based on that description, you're about 83% wrong.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah, that's about as far removed from what she actually sounds like as you could possibly get without describing, like digital hardcore or something

― Karen Tregaskin, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

I had listened to her music and thought 'meh', then I saw her live and it was brilliant, then I've returned to the recordings and I'm 'meh' again. I guess I can keep trying.

― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 14 December 2009 17:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

i am reminded slightly of late-period scott walker

'black rainbow' through 'laughing with a mouth of blood' and then 'marrow' is, like, incredible

― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 00:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

every time i hear 'Save Me From What I Want' i want it to carry on into LFO's 'Loch Ness'

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 00:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ha, this is exactly what I meant way upthread -- most of the terms you'd use to describe her music really do risk making her sound like "bearded American indie stuff beloved on National Public Radio." And to be honest with you, I would actually not argue that she's totally categorically distinct from that stuff. I really don't think she's that far away, unfashionable thought that might sound to some people. The difference is mostly just that she's a billion times more interesting and better at it than most. Artier, more graceful, more musical, better with mood, more imaginative, etc.

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 00:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

^^ One benefit of this is that anytime someone who likes popular indie along those lines asks you for a recommendation, St. Vincent is something good and interesting but exactly in the right vicinity for them to like. I do wish her records sounded as good as she does live, though.

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 00:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

There's a lot to be said for doing something a billion times more interestingly and effectively than most! God, this is good stuff. This is what is meant by the word 'realised' in reference to albums. Also, 'uncategorisable'. Add 'The Neighbors' and possibly 'The Strangers' to my list of holy shit this is fucking amazing

This is indeed the sort of album which should appeal to a fairly wide market of at least slightly committed sonic enthusiasts. A recommendation as likely to work on me as on someone whose taste rarely gets more leftfield than Portishead, or someone who has completely renounced mainstream pop for Steely Dan or whatever.

― dyaaaow (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 00:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

I continue to be baffled by the love for this one, I still vastly prefer her debut to this one. I keep returning to it in the hopes of discovering what everyone else seems to be hearing in it but, nope, still just decent sounding to me.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 01:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ha, this is exactly what I meant way upthread -- most of the terms you'd use to describe her music really do risk making her sound like "bearded American indie stuff beloved on National Public Radio." And to be honest with you, I would actually not argue that she's totally categorically distinct from that stuff. I really don't think she's that far away, unfashionable thought that might sound to some people. The difference is mostly just that she's a billion times more interesting and better at it than most. Artier, more graceful, more musical, better with mood, more imaginative, etc.

I'm sure most would say I'm way off base, but I hear a lot of Kate Bush in St. Vincent (at least in the lead single from the new album).

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 15 December 2009 02:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

The "Paint a black hole blacker" bits in "The Stranger" seem like an obvious Bushism.

― Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 02:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

I recently caught her performing on Austin City Limits and it was beautiful. The music had a very slow weight that reminded me of many things, L'Altra maybe. I listened to the album again and was mostly bored. Maybe her next album will caputre the magic of her live performances. Even her vocals are the album aren't as beautiful as they are live.

― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 05:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

If she's that much better live than on record, I need to see her live badly, because her records are awesome. Prefer the new one to the debut, but only got the debut on Saturday. Seems a little tamer.

― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 07:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

I would say that her records are v v compressed compared to live -- this can be true of a great many records v. live situations

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 07:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

i don't hear anything beardy NPR dude about her music at all except that occasionally there are maybe hints of old timeyness to it - but it's much more urban (as opposed to rural, beardy, backwoodsy) sounding than that. glimpses of 1920s glamour rather than that old tyme music hall thing. she is, at her best, totally uncategorisable in the same way that classic old skool 4ad was: haunting, evocative, otherworldly and yet visceral and teeth and bones and blood and flesh rather than filmy ghosts

kate bush comparisons are so o_0 wtf becoz yes, all otherworldly gurl singer-songwriter auteurs must be cut from the same cloth and that is the ETHEREAL staitjacket oh yessss

― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 11:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

I would say that her records are v v compressed compared to live

makes sense, you can hear it on the 'Marrow' intro where her "reach the parts that need oilin and fixin" line is a bit too low, quiet and lost in the choral haze.

― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 12:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

get back to me when annie clark starts using marimbas and whistles in her songs

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

correction there - i think it's adequate but oft unrelated structures falling apart craply and not in aid of the music, but for lack of an idea what to do with them otherwise. yegads, anyone would think she is ruins / misha mengelberg / the dead c the way people are vaunting this as some kinda revelation. just so peculiar that someone so obviously a very talented musician should have so many absolutely and completely dud chord progressions & unmemorable bridging parts.

― iglu ferrignu, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 06:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

get back to me when annie clark starts using marimbas and whistles in her songs

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:22 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's some pretty narrow criteria for good music TBF. I think the point with Annie Clarke is that she can make her guitar sound like marimbas and whistles.

― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

She's a phenom guitarist trapped in a art pop singer/songwriter that wants to soundtrack movies. The inevitable covers album will be a monster.

― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

saw her last night in oakland, wonderful, even with the bad mushy sound of the fox. major crowd surfing; i'm sure she only weight like 80 pounds but I still wouldn't have wanted to have gotten clocked in the head by her boots. her guitar playing actually reminds me more of adrian belew than fripp, and she has the stage presence of prince.

― akm, Thursday, 26 April 2012 03:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

YES I've been saying Belew for years. Absolutely.

― Ò (Ówen P.), Thursday, 26 April 2012 03:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's funny because i just went back and read an interview with her (av club I think) and he asked her if she'd seen Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson) and she said no but he drew the same comparison. Glad to know it wasn't my sometimes overly 80's KC-saturated brain making this up.

― akm, Thursday, 26 April 2012 04:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

David Byrne & St. Vincent collaborate for new LP "Love This Giant" out September 10(UK)/11(US) ON 4AD/Todo Mundo

― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 June 2012 22:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

is this the only mention of it on ilx? hm.

― thomp, Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:48 (8 months ago) Permalink

hmmm. Single did not wow me.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 August 2012 20:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

she has the stage presence of prince

Wow, really? Never seen her live

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 August 2012 20:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

there's lots of great st. vincent live online - pf linked this one some time back, it's awesome

saw her live once and was blown away, only thing might annoy you she's not that "true" to the songs' album sound but if you can get past that it's really something special. there's so much dynamics and she is wiiild :-)

― niels, Friday, 31 August 2012 08:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

Hmm, the times I've seen her she's generally been very formal, except for the guitar freakouts, which seemed kind of ironic counterpoints to her otherwise intentionally stylized/stiff/cold stage demeanor. I mean, it works, but I would not put her on my short list of dynamic, charismatic performers.

Love her covers, though, which is when I usually see her go nuts. Her Pop Group cover was incredible.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 August 2012 13:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

I wish I liked Strange Mercy more, i really do but I don't

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 14:14 (8 months ago) Permalink

Hmm, the times I've seen her she's generally been very formal, except for the guitar freakouts, which seemed kind of ironic counterpoints to her otherwise intentionally stylized/stiff/cold stage demeanor. I mean, it works, but I would not put her on my short list of dynamic, charismatic performers.

Love her covers, though, which is when I usually see her go nuts. Her Pop Group cover was incredible.

I'd echo this. Her songs live were very true to the album versions minus some extra-skronky guitar workouts. That being said---excellent live show. She also crowd-surfed during her Pop Group cover...I was impressed.

― dronestreet, Friday, 31 August 2012 14:50 (8 months ago) Permalink

I thought she was amazing live. Also, and I hate to say it, much more strikingly beautiful than I'd imagined - her eyes were just luminescent and absorbing. And she rocked. Like Robert Fripp.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 August 2012 15:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

Haha, I read your post as

I thought she was amazing live. Also, and I hate to say it, much more strikingly beautiful than I'd imagined - her eyes were just like Robert Fripp's.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 August 2012 16:07 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 15:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

someone has never seen Prince

― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 31 August 2012 15:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/02/160262123/first-listen-david-byrne-st-vincent-love-this-giant?sc=fb&cc=fmp

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 17:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

still need to listen to this some more

― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 September 2012 18:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

a frigid creature this one is

― marginal victory, Friday, 7 September 2012 22:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

I'm loving it.

― Jazzbo, Sunday, 9 September 2012 12:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

THere was a piece on them in the Guardian yesterday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/08/david-byrne-st-vincent?INTCMP=SRCH

― Stevolende, Sunday, 9 September 2012 13:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

"I saw this diminutive minx open for John Vanderslice this past Saturday night"

― thomp, Sunday, 9 September 2012 14:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

I definitely wake up when she's singing lead, or better yet, solo. If Byrne's writing or co-writing those songs, good for him, but so far I'm wishing he'd stayed more in the background. "I Used To Watch TV" has some of the old T.Heads engagement, though, and I'll listen some more. Good horns, wish she was playing more audible guitar.

― dow, Sunday, 9 September 2012 14:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

fun detail from the guardian thing is that the prosthetics for the cover are by the guy who did matthew barney's

― thomp, Sunday, 9 September 2012 14:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

eh-- my reaction so far to the new album

― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 September 2012 03:10 (8 months ago) Permalink

Sonically, texturally, in terms of energy, ideas, this is great on first exposure. Dunno how the songs will hold up in time but they don't quite seem like the primary focus yet.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

What other records use brass in ways comparable to this? There must be some but I can't think of anything off he top of my head.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 12:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

this is the first thing byrne has done in years that I've liked. probably the first album since his s/t one.

― akm, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 13:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

I was expecting it to be not so great, as 1) Melissa said she didn't like it and 2) BRASS. I am semi-allergic to brass but wow, this album was actually all kinds of awesome, I liked it from the first hearing, and it got even better the more I listened to it. The brass arrangements are really quite unusual, not what I was expecting at all, and really quite moreish.

― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 09:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

(But mostly it made me dig out a bunch of old Talking Heads records I haven't listened to since I was in high school.)

― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 09:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

Do you like St Vincent's other stuff WCC?

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 10:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yes.

― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 10:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

Personally I loved Actor so much but Strange Mercy kind of grated on me. I'm looking forward to hearing this record though.

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 10:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

st. vincent is a bit lame

― conrad, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 12:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

you're a bit lame.

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

I was lukewarm on the album after a couple spins (except for the horn arrangements, it wasn't really grabbing me...though I was working while listening).

However, seeing these Jimmy Fallon live performances really brought things together. Think I might end up digging this as much as the last St. Vincent record (a pop gem), though in a more brainy, less brawny manner. Bummed that the closest this tour is coming to me is Chicago in the middle of the week. Times like this...hate the Midwest.

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/david-byrne-and-st-vincent-the-forest-awakes-91012/1416222/

― dronestreet, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

Byrne's vocal melodies have not won me over yet, but maybe if I give it a few more listens.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

She seems better live, judging by a number of fairly recent YouTubes. Drop-dead cool gradually becomes poignant (emerging/undertow desperation of the "Joan Didionesque" persona she's cited), plus hairline fractures in keyboard bridges x guitar skronk. Byrne x horns-wise, so far I prefer Music From The Knee Plays.

― dow, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 15:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

What other records use brass in ways comparable to this? There must be some but I can't think of anything off he top of my head.

― willem, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:48 (8 months ago) Permalink

Seeing the show tonight, but underwhelmed by the album.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 13:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

Saw the show last night and liked the songs from the album better live. Live they are also doing lots of choreography for each number plus using lights and shadows to keep your interest. Alas, Byrne's stiff movements don't seem that endearing to me, and Annie's wiggling also gets a bit predictable. Her voice sounds great I just wish she would write some (conventional) choruses and hooks. The crowd was mainly there for David Byrne I sensed. It was a really expensive show-- $75 to $125 list for tickets.

Haven't looked for the Strathmore (MD/DC ) setlist online. It will be a slight bit different than this one from NY that I saw but its not that different:

Who
Weekend in the Dust
Strange Overtones
(David Byrne cover)
Lazy
(David Byrne cover)
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
(Talking Heads cover)
I am an Ape
Marrow
(St. Vincent cover)
I Should Watch TV
Ice Age
Like Humans Do
(David Byrne cover)
The One Who Broke Your Heart
Lazarus
Cheerleader
(St. Vincent cover)
Outside of Space and Time
Encore:
Cruel
(St. Vincent cover)
Burning Down The House
(Talking Heads cover)
Encore 2:
The Party
(St. Vincent cover)
Road To Nowhere
(Talking Heads cover)

― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 October 2012 13:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

that looks like an awesome setlist

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 1 October 2012 13:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

Aye, I bet that was wicked. Prefer her songs / vocals to his on the record.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 1 October 2012 13:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Monday, 1 October 2012 15:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

imo this is quite lovely and the out of focus cameraphone footage rather accentuates it

― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Monday, 1 October 2012 15:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

Still getting my head round this. Hate to say it, but Byrne's hokier moments (singing about TV and procreation etc) kind of spoil it a little bit. It's a great pairing though - Annie's moments really do remind me of prime TH-songwriting style. It's roughly 70/30 good/bad though.

― where is el airoporto? (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 13:12 (7 months ago) Permalink

if they tour the uk, I'll def be there.

― where is el airoporto? (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 13:12 (7 months ago) Permalink

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/03/21/st-vincent-actor-2009/

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2013 20:57 (2 months ago) Permalink