
Last time Annie Clark was in town almost two years ago, she was alone. She played a short solo set to a half-full Vicar St. as the warm up act for Grizzly Bear. On that night she was stunning, coming with a bag full of songs fresh from her second album Actor . Her incredible musical chops were to the fore, with guitar loops underpinning an angelic voice delivering constant, undeniable hooks. In many ways it was the sparseness of the set that really made it work; robbed of her usual touring band and forced to re-jig the songs [...]