St. Vincent‘s last album was 2021’s Daddy’s Home, and there have been signs — like her mostly cleared out Instagram — that she’s preparing to release a new one. Annie Clark discussed her new music in an interview with Mojo, saying that the new album features Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and John Freese, as well as Cate Le Bon, and that she produced it herself. “I needed to go deeper in finding my own sonic vocabulary,” she told Mojo. “I like to think of [the record] as post-plague pop, it’s a lot about heaven and hell – the metaphorical kinds. Which is appropriate, because sitting alone in a studio for that many hours I would say is a version of hell.”
After taking inspiration from the 1970s on Daddy’s Home, the new album features “lots of guitars” and 70s and 80s analogue synths. “It sounds urgent and psychotic, in equal parts the most caustic sound and also, I think, the most sonically blooming,” Clark told Mojo. “It’s high stakes and intentional.” She continued, “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.”
Read the interview in full on Mojo.
St. Vincent has two festival dates coming up, Bottle Rock Napa and Best Kept Secret. In December, she performed at the Ally Coalition Talent Show with Jack Antonoff (and other members of Bleachers) and Bartees Strange.
