“Music has given me my entire life,” St. Vincent says. “It was arduous work, however it’s price it as a result of each night time you get to spend 90 minutes with individuals and go someplace utterly out of this world.”
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“Music has given me my entire life,” St. Vincent says. “It was arduous work, however it’s price it as a result of each night time you get to spend 90 minutes with individuals and go someplace utterly out of this world.”
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The songwriter, guitarist and singer often called St. Vincent did not precisely identify herself after a saint. As an alternative, she took her stage identify from St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, the place the poet Dylan Thomas died. She says she assumed the moniker as a result of she felt it will give her license “to be larger” than Anne Clark — her start identify.
And St. Vincent can go large — in her darkish lyrics, her typically shredding guitar and the way she attire in efficiency. “Artwork, fortunately, is a secure place to discover all feelings, all concepts, regardless of how darkish or sophisticated,” the three-time Grammy-winner says.
In 2012, St. Vincent launched Love This Big, an album of duets with David Byrne. She additionally co-wrote the track “Merciless Summer season” with Taylor Swift and fronted Nirvana on the band’s induction into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Corridor of Fame in 2014.
St. Vincent describes her newest album, All Born Screaming, out April 26, as an train in “rigidity and launch” — with some moments that play as sonic “bounce scares.”
“I am not taking part in with persona,” she says of the album. “It is a actually a file about life and dying and love. That is it. That is all we obtained.”
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Therese Madden and Joel Wolfram produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Lars Gotrich tailored it for the net.