With experience playing with the Polyphonic Spree, Sufjan Stevens, and Glenn Branca, Annie Clark is more than qualified enough to start writing her own loosely ornate, lush pop songs. But while Clark, who chooses to use the name St. Vincent here, does incorporate the frilly strings and horns, background choirs, and various keyboards (most of which ...
Most of the L.A. bands of the '80s looked like they were straight out of the early-'70s glam rock movement. However, it was a whole different ballgame when it came to how their music sounded. Instead of studying the masters (David Bowie, New York Dolls, T. Rex, etc.), many were stuck trying to replicate hits by Van Halen and Aerosmith. Although ...
St. Vincent's Annie Clark is a unique talent; she's as much a musician as she is a songwriter, and both her sounds and her words are delicately uncompromising. She blends rock, jazz, electronic, and classical touches together so seamlessly that it doesn't seem remarkable, and as lovely as her voice and music can be, she's too strange and too smart ...
With the massive punk-pop explosion of the late '90s (Green Day, blink-182, etc.), many veteran acts were getting in on the singsongy' act. 1997 saw Lizzie Grey's Spiders & Snakes take a stab at penning punk-pop tunes, as he enlisted the help of a pair of producers, Flipside Magazine's Martin McMartin and Epitaph Recording artists the Humpers' ...
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