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- Summary: The latest full-length release from St. Vincent was self-produced and features contributions by Rachel Eckroth, Josh Freese, Dave Grohl, Mark Guiliana, Cate Le Bon, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Stella Mogzawa, and David Ralicke.
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- Record Label: Virgin
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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May 13, 2024With such a consistently adept and fresh discography, it’s impossible to call this album St Vincent’s best, yet it’s quite easily her fullest, building on everything she’s already achieved while also treading new ground. If she is to be known by one record, let it be ‘All Born Screaming’.
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Apr 25, 2024What ties it all together is her beautifully honed skill as a songwriter. For all the sonic uproar, the melodies are impossible to miss, and so is the personality she imprints across the album: troubled but self-aware, wryly funny, the doubts and fears and worries she expresses completely at odds with the confidence of her approach to risk-taking, shape-shifting music.
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Apr 26, 2024“All Born Screaming” is focused and of a piece and all over the place at the same time. It’s a tribute to St. Vincent’s vision and skill that an album bursting with so many ideas is such a coherent whole.
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Apr 26, 2024Clark has said she had to take over production because she couldn’t figure out how to articulate the sounds in her head to somebody else. Listening to the finished product, it’s easy to see what she means. The surreal, slippery “Hell Is Near” is unlike anything Clark has done before—and particularly difficult to fully capture with words. Broadly psychedelic, a collage of 12-string guitar, piano and hydra-synth creates a song that feels like its own pocket dimension.
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Apr 26, 2024It’s testament to Clark’s self-assured and enigmatic oeuvre: indeed, she still holds surprises for us yet.
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Apr 25, 2024Whether the stylistic digressions work for you or not is immaterial really, because they’re impressive no matter what your expectations were.
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Record CollectorJun 12, 2024Not her best, but never dull. [Jun 2024, p.103]