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St. Vincent’s ‘All Born Screaming’ Tour Further Certifies Her as Rock’s Dark (but Oddly Cheerful) Queen: Concert Review
There's nothing 'basic' about St. Vincent, but the simple approach of her All Born Screaming Tour cements her as the reigning current queen of rock.
Going out in support of 2017’s “Masseduction” album, on her synth-pop-glorifying “Fear the Future Tour,” she put pop-art video projections on the big screen, obfuscating masks on her band members, and a lot of latex in the dressing room, to magnify her candy-colored dominatrix look. Anyone who’d wandered into the venue just in search of a good time might have wondered what they’d gotten themselves into, with that dramatic and mournful an opening number, with keyboard player Rachel Eckroth playing electronic piano parts that made the song sound like one of Trent Reznor’s least happy melodies. “According to Wikipedia, Lewis and Clark came over the mountains from Utah, which was very arid, and went, ‘Le bois!’ — and somehow it mutated into ‘Boise,’ and I for one am very happy about that.” She added, “And the second thing I learned about your state is that if you try and just do what a normal person might do on a day off in a beautiful city, which is lie in your hotel bed and look at PornHub, it makes you…” — with the crowd drowning out her explanation of whatever hoop she was required to jump through for that leisure activity.
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