All Born Screaming introduces a brand new Annie Clarke, as she discards her icily cerebral persona and turns into nakedly feral.
The transition to beast mode occurs when second monitor “Reckless” mutates from genteel to carnivorous with a blitzkrieg of concussive programmed drums and chinking synths.
Dave Grohl’s huge drums intensify the hard-funk ferocity of “Damaged Man” and “Flea” earlier than the LP’s first half climaxes with the Princely strut, “Massive Time Nothing”.
The vibe turns into lusher as trumpets herald the ’60s movie theme vibes of “Violent Instances”, lifts off with the massed voices and serrated guitars of “So Many Planets” and climaxes with the title monitor, a Cate LeBon collaboration that shape-shifts from frisky rave-up to hallucinogenic tour, as Clarke completes one other radical musical/psychological metamorphosis.
The Street to All Born Screaming
STRANGE MERCY
(4AD, 2011)
Although she was protecting Massive Black’s “Kerosene” in her stay set, there was as but little of that power in Annie Clark’s recordings. However her songs have been rising darker and extra direct: notably on “Merciless”, the video
ST VINCENT
(Loma Vista, 2014)
On her breakthrough album, Annie goes massive, goes daring and brings a brand new pop ambition (“I need your whole thoughts” she sings on “Digital Witness) to her troubled funk exercises.
MASSEDUCTION
(Loma Vista, 2017)
Annie hits her imperial peak on this matchless assortment of neurotic electropop (“Los Ageless”, “Younger Lover”) and bilious late night time bar ballads (“New York”).
Stephen Troussé
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