Good morning! Hope your week has improved as much as mine has. We have three stellar tracks to share today from St Tropez, Blind Architect, and the new Josh Mease project, Lapland. St Tropez - "In Pictures" Single out now on Bandcamp This San Francisco-based quartet just released my new 'jam'. On their best single to date, St Tropez's "In Pictures" moves from listless melancholy to jubilant explosion. [...]
Clif's top ten list for 2012 with twenty others receiving honorable mention: 10. Cat Meat – Cat Meat We previewed Cat Meat’s self-titled debut as a Friday Free Feature on November 9, and it’s been in constant rotation between my iPod and car stereo. A complex, experimental alt. country/folk album that claims influences such as Wilco, Sparklehorse and Califone; the classic psychedelic experimenalist, Captain Beefheart; and the legendary bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell. When you listen, they’re all there in subtle drips, drabs and dollops. [...]
The title of this album is incorrect or, rather, incomplete. Yes, this is a collaboration between David Byrne and Annie Clark of St. Vincent but there's a third, equally important member: the brass. Love This Giant , out on 4AD/Todo Mundo , is absolutely packed with brass sections, melodies, and blasts. It gives off a temporal vibe, especially when placed in contrast with the electronic flourishes that are provided by the two talented musicians. Each track finds a new way to use the instruments [...]
It's been one hell of a day for people who like their music free and completely separate from their hard drive. The latest NPR First Listen comes by way of David Byrne and St. Vincent, whose collaborative album, Love This Giant , hits stores next tuesday. Stream the album here , and check out their just released video for "Who" here . Album Stream: David Byrne & St. Vincent - "Love This Giant" |
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NPR is offering up a stream of David Byrne and St. Vincent 's collaborative LP Love This Giant one week before it officially hits stores. The album was recorded in Hoboken, NJ at Water Music Studio, where Byrne and Annie Clark were joined by a brass section comprised of members from the Dap-Kings and Antibalas. Stream the album below, and make sure to pick up the 12-track effort when it drops on September 11th via 4AD/Todo Mundo.
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We've heard a couple of songs from Just Tell Me You Want Me - A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac over the past few months. Today we get to stream the entire project which features covers of Fleetwood Mac from the likes of Tame Impala, MGMT, St. Vincent, Washed Out, The Kills and Lykke Li. Stream it in full below and from the 14th of August you can pick up a copy of it over here .
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David Byrne and St. Vincent are offering up another track from their forthcoming collaborative LP Love This Giant , which is set to drop in early September. We previously heard album opener " Who ", which the pair gave us last month, and now you can stream "Weekend In The Dust". If you head over to their official website , you can stream both songs in full, and if you pre-order the album you will receive a download of the latter. A fan newsletter gave us some choice words from the pair, who [...]
David Byrne and St. Vincent have shared the second track from their forthcoming brassy collaborative album, Love This Giant . "Weekend In The Dust" doesn't feature any vocals from the Talking Heads leader, but St. Vincent makes that up with what has got to be the catchiest hook she's ever written. Listen to the track on their website ; check out first single "Who" below if you haven't already. Love This Giant is out September 11th. [...]
Another track from the David Byrne and St. Vincent collaborative album, Love This Giant, has surfaced. The track titled "Weekend In The Dust" is one of the ten album tracks that the duo wrote together and features some funky bass riffs and swells along with horns. The track will be made available to those who pre-order the album now. Stream it here . The album is out September 11th through 4AD / Todo Mundo .
It’s Annie Clark’s turn to cover Fleetwood Mac for this summer's Just Tell Me That You Want Me tribute compilation, and she’s collaborated with Craig Wedren of Shudder to Think on a crunchingly distorted cover of “Sisters of the Moon.” Clark only takes over lead vocals toward the song’s latter third, but you can’t escape those classic guitar wails – this cover sometimes reminds us of the doom-y, operatic b-side “Grot” from her Record Store Day single, with, of course, an added (and excellent) vocal performance from Wedren. [...]
St. Vincent ’s incredible Strange Mercy dropped last summer and Annie Clark’s releases since then have leaned more toward the raucous (see her incendiary Record Store Day 7”), but here’s a bonus track from the Japanese release of Strange Mercy that you’ll dig if you preferred her more orchestral (but just as dark) cuts, “This Wave.” Over a ton of Old West echoed whistling, military drums, haunting piano, and spiraling strings, Clark lays down chillingly beautiful and classically inscrutable vocals. The end product sounds [...]
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It's hard not to dig anything Annie Clark and St. Vincent have done in the past few years. After releasing her third album, Strange Mercy , many have swooned for her sultry vocals and intricate guitar work. And today we can swoon once more as a track that has slipped through the net for many has hit the net. It's taken from the Japanese version of her latest release and is titled "This Wave". See what you make of it below. (Via LB4YB / Tumblr )
Whether you know it or not, you may well have been exposed to Texan multi-instrumentalist Daniel Hart . The most obvious and likely exposure would be through St. Vincent , both as a member of her backing band as well as being featured on "Actor" . But if you’ve listened to or seen John Vanderslice , Other Lives , or The Rosebuds , you’ve at least heard Hart’s contributions. There’s even Hart’s former band [...]
The a-side to St. Vincent's new, non-album Record Store day 73, and it's a blood pumper. Between Annie Clark's ferocious screams and the heavily distorted guitars, St. Vincent takes no prisoners on this one; reminding me of some of Kim Gordon's more aggressive moments in the Sonic Youth discography. There's a really twisted chorus effect on Clark's voice that makes her vocal delivery breach the threshold of insanity. Really short, solid, and punked out track. Considering the nature of the song, I'm not surprised the song didn't make it onto Strange Mercy -assuming the [...]
Nothing is better than when St. Vincent gets really fucking heavy , right? Nothing is better than when Annie Clark , she of the birdlike bone structure and mad guitar skills, gets totally, brutally punk on you, right? Right? If you’re with us on this, check out both sides of her totally unreal Record Store Day 7” release, Krokodil . Continue reading: Rec'd: St. Vincent - "Krokodil" and "Grot" Read more articles like " Rec'd: St. Vincent - "Krokodil" and "Grot" " on PMA | Pretty [...]
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Another Record Store Day release that many were hankering for was a 7" from Annie Clark aka St. Vincent . On that 7" were two brand new tracks from the guitar whiz and boy are they good. The tracks are dirty, fuzzy monsters that you'll just keep on going back to again and again for more listens. Check out "Krokodil" and "Grot" below. "Krokodil" "Grot"
With Record Store Day being over, all of the exclusive content that was reserved for the day's release has begun to surface on the Internet. Listen to St. Vincent's contribution: her 7" featuring the two new songs, "Krokodil" and "Grot". Read more »
You've probably already seen Tupac's hologram at the Coachella Valley music festival from this weekend (spreading for the first time on two weekends) but entire sets were broadcasted live on Youtube on three channels with about 25 gigs you could watch from your "couchella" every day or night. For those of you who didn't have the time to stay late in front of the computer, here are the full live performances from Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, St. Vincent (with an epic crowdsurf), Azealia Banks, Explosions in the Sky, A.$.A.P Rocky, Frank [...]
A track for the song "Cheerleader," which comes off the latest St. Vincent album, Strange Mercy . The album made it onto my list of favorite albums from 2011 , and you can check our review of it here . Look for this album now on 4AD. A lot like the video for " Cruel ," this song's video deals with being singled out, critiqued, controlled. The ending is just as depressing, too.
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