Great American Music Hall (Venue Partner)
859 O'Farrell St
415.885.0750
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St. Vincent. Photo: Tod Seelie
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Monday Feb 8, 2010 (8pm)
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$20
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“Twenty-six-year-old Annie Clark tosses out quite the maelstrom of ideas. Luckily, she also has a wholly capable musical persona with which to steady them. Taking the name St. Vincent, Clark put together Marry Me in 2007, one of the most unabashedly adventurous indie debuts in recent memory. On her recent full-length follow-up, Actor, Clark continues to tweak and twist the influences she picked up as a backing singer for Sufjan Stevens and the Polyphonic Spree, borrowing theatricality from '70s Bowie, the coy power of Kate Bush, and the fractured digitization of many noise and electronic artists. Whether or not she's actually saintly is still up for debate, but St. Vincent is certainly onto something.”
Nicholas Nauman, Flavorpill
St. Vincent is the recording project of Annie Clark (born 1982, in Tulsa, Oklahoma), a one-woman band who mixes pop balladry, showtune-ish exuberance, squalling electric guitar, and subtle hints of jazz in her particular, complex compositions. Based in Brooklyn, but raised in Dallas, Clark had, before finding fame as St. Vincent, done time in robe-wearing sunshine-pop cult The Polyphonic Spree, and in the live band for banjo-pucking boy-genius Sufjan Stevens.
She took her stage name from St. Vincent's hospital in downtown New York, the place where, amongst other things, poet Dylan Thomas spent his final hours. The joke being that Clark's music is “the place where poetry comes to die.”
