http://krissy.vox.com/library/posts/tags/annie+clark/page/1/ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn" - Charlie Parker en Vox Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:01:36 -0700 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss annie clark http://krissy.vox.com/library/post/listen-up-im-obsessed-with-st-vincent.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Krissy) http://krissy.vox.com/library/post/listen-up-im-obsessed-with-st-vincent.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://krissy.vox.com/library/post/listen-up-im-obsessed-with-st-vincent.html?_c=feed-rss-full Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:01:36 -0700 <p>I keep forgetting to blog this, and I need to say it:&#160; <strong>I am obsessed with <a href="http://www.ilovestvincent.com/">St. Vincent</a>.</strong><br /> <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00b8ea0716b01bc000d4144623726a47" at:format="large" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-large audio-enclosure" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 10px auto;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item audio-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://krissy.vox.com/library/audio/6a00b8ea0716b01bc000d4144623726a47.html"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00b8ea0716b01bc000d4144623726a47-320pi" alt="Marry Me" title="Marry Me" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://krissy.vox.com/library/audio/6a00b8ea0716b01bc000d4144623726a47.html" title="Marry Me">Marry Me</a></div> <div class="enclosure-asset-subtitle overflow-hidden">St Vincent</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> <br />Recommended if you like:&#160; <a href="http://www.listentofeist.com">Feist</a>; Regina Spektor; <a href="http://asthmatickitty.com/musicians.php?artistID=8">My Brightest Diamond</a>; crooners; really good adventurous, melodic music</p><p><br />I haven&#39;t felt this way since I discovered Feist in late &#39;04.&#160; It&#39;s that feeling of <em>this is something new</em>, a start of a new relationship with an artist.&#160;&#160; It goes far beyond <em>this one song is pretty cool</em>.&#160; It&#39;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. </p><p>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&#39;s stepped out with her own album.&#160;&#160; I&#39;m taken with her voice, her songwriting, the new little synapses her sounds forge in my brain.&#160; The fact that she&#39;s drop-dead gorgeous (and from Texas) doesn&#39;t hurt.&#160; It&#39;s important to note that she&#39;s only 24 years old, and I don&#39;t point that out to make most of us feel bad.&#160; It means that, though songs from her debut<em> Marry Me </em>are already set to become some of my all-time favorites, her very best is yet to come.</p><p>Her album <em>Marry Me</em> comes out July 10th on Beggars Banquet.&#160; <a href="http://www.myspace.com/stvincent">Listen</a>.&#160; And keep track of her on her <a href="http://lovelettersofstvincent.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.<br /> <div><br /></div></p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://krissy.vox.com/library/post/listen-up-im-obsessed-with-st-vincent.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0716b01bc000d41448880c3c7f?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> music texas musicians obsessed listen up st. vincent annie clark