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Label

Beggars Banquet

St. Vincent

Marry Me

st vincent is the moniker of singer multiinstrumentalist composer annie clark and this is her debut fulllength she's opened for such diverse acts as television jose gonzalez and sufjan stevens and she's an inventive and versatile guitarist who has also performed with avantgarde composer glenn branca on this record she writes cinematic pop epics that feel at times like paris in the 20s before all the fun ended or conversely an orchestra of pure modernity a new american music informed by jazz gospel blues southern folk music and classical composition but in the end an animal original unto itself she's been compared to everyone from bjork to kate bush to jeff buckley and her beautiful voice melds perfectly with her intricate guitar work the music is complex and varied the lyrics intelligent the songs are instantly memorable and that is a pretty rare quality