Listen Up: I'm Obsessed with St. Vincent
I keep forgetting to blog this, and I need to say it: I am obsessed with St. Vincent.
Recommended if you like: Feist; Regina Spektor; My Brightest Diamond; crooners; really good adventurous, melodic music
I haven't felt this way since I discovered Feist in late '04. It's that feeling of this is something new, a start of a new relationship with an artist. It goes far beyond this one song is pretty cool. It's the excitement of knowing that the music of St. Vincent, aka Ms. Annie Clark, is going to be with me for a long time.
You might have heard of her as a touring guitarist for Sufjan Stevens and Polyphonic Spree, or opening up as a solo artist more recently for Midlake and John Vanderslice, but this is the first time she's stepped out with her own album. I'm taken with her voice, her songwriting, the new little synapses her sounds forge in my brain. The fact that she's drop-dead gorgeous (and from Texas) doesn't hurt. It's important to note that she's only 24 years old, and I don't point that out to make most of us feel bad. It means that, though songs from her debut Marry Me are already set to become some of my all-time favorites, her very best is yet to come.
Her album Marry Me comes out July 10th on Beggars Banquet. Listen. And keep track of her on her blog.
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