![]() ![]() Shaky Knees 2021 Lineup: Stevie Nicks, The Strokes, Run the Jewels to Headline By Scott Russell | 11:32am.Vincent's Self-Referential Sundance Movie The Nowhere Inn Drops First Trailer By Jacob Oller Aug| 9:00am Vincent Diehards Out in the Cold By Jesse Hassenger Septem| 10:05am The 10 Best Sets We Saw at Shaky Knees 2021 By Scott Russell Octo| 11:55am.Her lush arrangements pack a prize fighter’s frequency of emotional punches and move smoothly from mellow drifting vocals to marching drums and electric trills. ![]() Clark uses the mini Moog, Arp and Wurlitzer of Bobby Sparks, the drums of Midlake’s McKenzie Smith, Daniel Hart on violin and her own soaring vocals to create tapestries of disparate yet not dissonant instruments and sounds. It’s uniquely uneven and always interesting if not necessarily easy to get hooked by. Track after track leads you one way, guides you down a path your feet have found before, and then, just when you’re used to going right, the music takes a sharp left. Strange Mercy is a consistently bold attempt to be different. Vincent’s third studio album, it’s spring-water clear that she hasn’t tried to repeat what works she hasn’t shied away from the challenge. She had created a work that left her with only two ways to move forward, continue with what works and risk accusations of sameness by those frequently accusatory rock critics, or even riskier, try and be entirely different once again.Ī few songs into St. It was unique in a way that made it hard to imagine a follow-up. As I sat, mesmerized by the angelic thousand-yard stare of her album cover, I lost myself entirely. It wasn’t until 2009’s Actor that I sat down with headphones on and tried the music on for size. I’d heard of her debut and wanted to like it after being told she named it Marry Me because of a line from Arrested Development, but I never got around to giving it a listen. Vincent (the stage name of soon-to-be 29-year-old Annie Clark). I’ll never forget the first time I listened to St. ![]()
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