St Vincent rocks it on Letterman

Here is the inimitable St Vincent ROCKING IT OUT on Marrow on Letterman earlier this week, full brass section in tow.

Very impressive!



Can someone please bring St Vincent BAND out here? PLEASE?

Actor is out now through 4ad. Get it already.

New St Vincent videos - live for Lake Fever Sessions

Here is Annie Clarke, aka St Vincent performing 3 tracks acoustically: Actor Out Of Work and The Strangers from her latest album Actor. Plus Oh My God from her debut album Marry Me.

Recorded in Nashville by the Lake Fever Sessions.

St. Vincent "Actor Out Of Work" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.

St. Vincent "The Strangers" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.

St. Vincent "Oh My God" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.

Actor is out now through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New St Vincent mp3 Actor Out Of Work

St Vincent's Actor Out Of Work is the next single taken from the upcoming album Actor.

Actor Out Of Work is where Clark gets into 'rock mode' if you like, a succinct concoction of fuzzed out guitars, horns and thumping drums clocking in at just over two minutes.

Though don’t be mistaken, this aint your ordinary middle-of-the-road rock track.

Miss Clarke’s melodies and inventive arrangements ensure that this is yet another one of her kooky creations, impossible to pigeon hole yet easy to love.

Actor Out Of Work [mp3]

Buy the album Actor from iTunes.

Actor Out Of Work 7" is out now.

The album Actor is out May 2 through 4ad/ Remote Control.

New video - St Vincent - Actor Out Of Work

The new clip from St Vincent. Actor Out Of Work from St Vincent's forthcoming new record Actor, out May 2 through 4ad/ Remote Control.

St Vincent delivers unto us The Strangers

St Vincent, aka Annie Clarke, has unveiled the first track The Strangers from her new album Actor, due out May 2.

Two years ago, Annie Clark’s recorded debut as St. Vincent, Marry Me, gave immediate notice that a dizzying new talent had emerged from the flatlands of Texas. Actor, St. Vincent’s beguiling, sophisticated new record, takes that debut’s ambition as its starting point and never looks back. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired.

A sneak peek:

right click here to download THE STRANGERS

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St. Vincent talks Actor

Yesterday we posted some live videos of St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, performing tracks from her upcoming new album, Actor. Last week Pitchfork chatted to Clark about the inspirations for the new album which, as it turns out, range from Disney classics to Aerosmith. The interview's now up and you can read it here.

St. Vincent previews tracks from new album Actor

Last week we announced details of St. Vincent's new album Actor. Now comes your first taste of the album with St. Vincent previewing a couple of the tracks from the album at her NoisePop performance. First up, album opener The Strangers


Marrow


Releasing her debut album Marry Me on Beggars Banquet, last year's reshuffling of Beggars Group will see Actor released through 4AD (TV On The Radio, Scott Walker, Deerhunter) in early April.

St. Vincent's new album details revealed

Actor is the much anticipated follow up to St. Vincent's (Annie Clark) first album Marry Me, one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2007. Actor was co-produced by Clark and John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Polyphonic Spree) and features eleven new songs, all written and arranged by Clark.

Actor, due out May 3, takes the ambitious compositional and sonic underpinnings of Clark's debut as a starting point and never looks back. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired. Those who saw St. Vincent at her recent sold out performances at the Sydney Festival will have been lucky enough to witness this first hand.

Speaking for the first time about Actor, Annie Clark commented, "I wanted to make these songs technicolour animatronic rides."

Clark, "a playful chanteuse [and] fearsome shredder" according to the New York Times, sings and plays guitar, bass and keyboard on Actor, with woodwind contributions from Hideaki Aomori (Sufjan Stevens) and Alex Sopp (Bjork, Phillip Glass), plus additional rhythm section work by McKenzie Smith and Paul Alexander of Midlake. Other musicians on the album include Mike Atkinson (French horn, score consultant), Daniel Hart (violin, sarongi), William Flynn (bass), and percussionists Jeff Ryan, Matthias Bossi and Aynsley Powell.

The first St. Vincent album Marry Me earned widespread praise and led to Clark being named Female Artist of the Year at the 2008 PLUG Independent Music Awards and she has toured extensively with artists such as The National, Death Cab For Cutie and Arcade Fire. Before recording as St. Vincent, Annie Clark was a member of The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' touring band, and performed with Glenn Branca's guitar orchestra.

Actor album art:


Tracklist
1. The Strangers
2. Save Me From What I Want
3. Neighbours
4. Actor Out Of Work
5. Black Rainbow
6. Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood
7. Marrow
8. The Bed
9. The Party
10. Just The Same But Brand New
11. The Sequel

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St. Vincent at Sydney Festival 09

In between playing at sold out shows at The Famous Spiegeltent as part of the Sydney Festival Annie Clark aka St. Vincent took time out to treat Shoot The Player viewers to an interview and a lovely piano version of the title track from her 2007 album Marry Me, as well as an acoustic version of What Me Worry?

Marry Me


What Me Worry?

St Vincent announced for Sydney Festival

The inimitable Annie Clarke will be returning to our shores for a run of three shows at Sydney Festival in January 2009.

A touring member of Sufjan Steven's band, Annie performed a one off show with My Brightest Diamond for a lucky Melbourne audience but the rest of the country missed out. Not this time, fingers crossed. She will be performing three shows in at The Famous Spiegeltent for Sydney Festival. No news yet on other side shows just yet but fingers and toes are crossed.

ST VINCENT
Fri 16 Jan – Sydney, Sydney Festival Spiegeltent
Sat 17 Jan – Sydney, Sydney Festival Spiegeltent
Sun 18 Jan – Sydney, Sydney Festival Spiegeltent

If you haven't picked up a copy of St Vincent's debut album 'Marry Me', now would be a great time to seek it out.

St Vincent "Now, Now" [6MB]
mp3 (from Marry Me)

And the fantastic Dumbo Sessions videos including a stunning performance of the Jackson Browne penned 'These Days' (originally recorded by Nico)



And if you just can't get enough of the gorgeous Annie Clarke here are some great polaroids that the peeps at Gorilla vs Bear recently took at Fun Fun Fun Fest.