St. Vincent says 'All Born Screaming' is an album of tension and release
by NPR
NPR— "I'm not playing with persona," St. Vincent says of All Born Screaming. "It's a really a record about life and death and love. That's it. That's all we got."
The A.V. Club—St. Vincent (and the rest of the world) starts over on All Born Screaming. The “time of monsters,” according to philosopher Antonio Gramsci, comes when the old world is dying and the new one “struggles to be born.” His quote seemed to get a lot of play on social media in 2020, as we all watched endless death play out via smartphone screen. The old way of doing things was very clearly over, but the future felt impossible to conceptualize. But this quote also resurfaced in the fall of 2016 during a contentious U.S. election (maybe you remember which one). It seems...
Stereogum—St. Vincent Releases New Single "Big Time Nothing": Listen. At the end of this week, St. Vincent will release new album All Born Screaming. Our pal Ryan Leas says it’s a return to form (though many of you have since insisted that Daddy’s Home did not leave Annie Clark in need of a comeback), and early singles “Broken Man” and “Flea” have backed up Clark’s talk of a return to her favored sonic vocabulary.
Cleveland.com—St. Vincent's new album and nine other things you must hear this week. While Taylor Swift will likely continue to dominate music sales, good new works are coming up behind from St. Vincent, Anitta, Pet Shop Boys, Neil Young and more, as well as archival releases by Def Leppard, Billy Idol and Tina Turner