St Vincent

Best of 2011: Gigs

The best gig of 2011, including Remember Remember, St Vincent, Arcade Fire and Group Inerane

13 Dec 2011

Remember Remember and Miaoux Miaoux The Planetarium, Glasgow, Sat 8 Oct We don’t tend to throw about words like ‘spellbinding’ and ‘mesmerising’. But for a gig that asked us to lie back and gaze at the stars, while laptop wizardry and shimmering…

St Vincent, Stereo, Glasgow, Tue 15 Nov 2011

Thrillingly eclectic live set from the American musician

21 Nov 2011

St. Vincent (okay, Annie Clark if you must), looks good lit from behind, her curls silhouette into an entirely appropriate halo-effect as the first angelic vocals hit an absolutely rammed Stereo. It's a set almost entirely taken from new album Strange…

Sweetly strange singer St Vincent set for Stereo

Everything from Hollywood musicals to brutally cranked guitars

28 Oct 2011

St Vincent’s 2007 debut, Marry Me, was a striking introduction to Annie Clark’s baroque pop vision. At times it sounds like an avant-garde take on pre-war Hollywood musicals, with Clark’s multi-tracked vocals vying for attention with expressionist…

St Vincent - Strange Mercy

Contemporary classicism with sharp beats, woozy synths and a personality of its own

24 Aug 2011

(4AD) Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, is an oddball pop whizz in the tradition of Kate Bush or Todd Rundgren, spinning gorgeous melodies from unconventional structures and inspired arrangements. Her voice is exquiste, but never merely pretty. Clark…

My Jerusalem - Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Sun 16 Jan

Unexposed American indie supergroup brings their underground collaboration to Scotland

26 Jan 2011

Assembled by singer-songwriter Jeff Klein, formerly of The Twilight Singers, supergroup (of a modest American indie pedigree) My Jerusalem’s other five members are variously associated with The Polyphonic Spree, St Vincent, Cursive, Great Northern and…

Hitlist: Music

Another fortnight of fantastic gigs

15 Oct 2009

Camera Obscura, Oxjam 2009, Phoenix, Biffy Clyro, Julie Fowlis, Grizzly Bear, St. Vincent, Cluthc, Kylsea, Kamchatka

Beggars Banquet and Too Pure to close

1 May 2008

Influential indie music labels Beggars Banquet and Too Pure are to close, with their rosters moving to fellow Beggars Group label 4AD. The labels, who between them release music by artists like The National, Stereolab, Scout Niblett and St Vincent…

St Vincent

Beggars Banquet

23 Aug 2007

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