St. Vincent reveals her new album features Dave Grohl and Cate Le Bon
St. Vincent has shared the first details about the content and contributors of her upcoming record, promising features with Dave Grohl and Cate Le Bon.
The new record will mark St. Vincent’s seventh album, and her first full-length offering in three years, following the release of Daddy’s Home in 2021. Annie Clark took home the ‘Best Alternative Music Album’ award for the record at the 2022 Grammys.
In conversation with Mojo, Clark explained: “The last record, I was approaching tough subjects with a lot of biting humour and wit. I put on a wig, I was prancing around, it was so fun. This record is darker and harder and more close to the bone. I’d say it’s my least funny record yet! There’s nothing cute about it.”
The upcoming record promises to be dominated by guitars and analogue synths, resulting in a sound she describes as “urgent and psychotic, in equal parts the most caustic sound and also, I think, the most sonically blooming. It’s high stakes and intentional.”
“I like to think of [the record] as post-plague pop, it’s a lot about heaven and hell — the metaphorical kinds,” she explained.
Clark also revealed some of her sonic collaborators on the record, including rock icon Dave Grohl, his Foo Fighters bandmate Josh Freese, and indie staple Cate Le Bon.
While St. Vincent hasn’t released any new music of late, last year, she covered Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. As Buch, who was inducted alongside acts including Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Rage Against the Machine and Missy Elliott, wasn’t present at the event, Clark took to the stage to produce a poignant tribute to her hero.
Revisit Daddy’s Home below.
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