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‘I‘d rather people scratch their heads than yawn’: St Vincent on death, Dave Grohl and dividing her fans
Despite its unflinching title, the artist’s new album, All Born Screaming, is a deeply romantic record
“To do interviews and to do press is a construct,” she says in her glaringly white LA office (she splits her time between there and New York), looking like “goth Grey Gardens” in black silk headscarf, thick-framed sunglasses and a vintage Maison Margiela trenchcoat I initially mistake for a dressing gown. Clark, always happy haunting pop’s periphery (she seems genuinely stunned at the global success of Cruel Summer, calling it a “sensation”), is not a fan of the current obsession with lyrical Easter eggs: “I don’t think songs are meant to be autobiographical puzzles for people to figure out. A moment of beauty on the album is the pulsating Sweetest Fruit, which opens with an ode to the late electronic music producer Sophie, who fell to her death in 2021.For the first time Clark stumbles over her words, unsure if she should talk about the song’s specifics (“Let that be a fun Easter egg!” she jokes).
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