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St. Vincent Follows the Success of ‘Cruel Summer’ With the Dark, Weird and Oddly Accessible ‘All Born Screaming’: Album Review
St. Vincent's eighth album, 'All Born Screaming,' combines melody with noise, and beauty with weirdness, in an unusually coherent and satisfying way.
There’s plenty of her distinctively arch melodies, soaring vocals and memorable songwriting; there’s also lots of warped synthesizer textures, propulsive rhythms, mildly discomfiting lyrics and her awesomely jagged, aggressive guitar playing. (Having said that, some have taken exception to this album’s “Sweetest Fruit,” claiming the song, with lyrics that pay homage to the late hyper-pop pioneer Sophie, is exploiting her death; Clark has insisted she’s “an admirer from afar.”) Clark has always made big or provocative artistic statements without necessarily feeling she has to explain them, but what often gets lost in her seeming self-seriousness is just how far-reaching — and funny — a lot of her work is, both musically and lyrically.
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