St. Vincent

ABOUT

Annie Erin Clark (born September 28, 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter who performs under the moniker St. Vincent. She was a member of The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' touring band. "St. Vincent (looking like Helena Bonham Carter after years of Pilates) is a disarmingly beautiful and talented leader of a large-ish orch-pop group—the belle of her bastion, you might say. Drums, keyboards, sax, woodwinds, bass, and violin support the guitar-wielding frontwoman, who sings with a creamy sweetness and measured power. Her time spent studying at the Berklee College of Music and playing with the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens can be detected in the artfully arranged, intricately orchestrated songs that have one foot in the hit parade and the other in the conservatory. Odd time signatures and surprising dynamics temper the sometimes sentimental, sugary melodies, but sporadic tangents into outright dissonance and intense crescendos jostle the mostly decorous proceedings into shocking post-punk territory." -The Stranger

PHOTOS

VIDEOS

• These Days

LINKS AND MP3s

• Website