Vincent’s signature sound relies not on balancing the sweetness and the sinister but on the combination of both, simultaneously.Īlthough it is a sound which, even early on, won praise from critics, newcomers often need to persevere and think twice about their first impressions. With Strange Mercy, what becomes abundantly clear is that St.
Her debut album Marry Me perhaps showed the most restraint in its composition, attempting a balancing act between the two extremes, whilst 2009’s follow up Actor delved a little further into each contrasting sonic style, pushing both her intrepid orchestration and guitar effect ridden repulsion. Vincent is often referred to as a mix of the pretty and the dirty, the beauty of Annie Clark’s melodies and the delicacy of her voice grating against filthy serrated guitars. I’m happy to get to be part of that tradition, 'cause when I think of all the music I’ve ever loved and what it’s meant to me, it’s cool to get to give back to that collective consciousness.” “But then it becomes especially gratifying to go out on tour and find ‘oh people singing along’ ‘oh this has worked its way into their lives in some meaningful way,’ and that’s great. “I mean it’s kind of surreal it becomes more real once you get out there and start touring, because all you can do is make the best record you can make and hope that people like it,” Clark admits. Intriguingly, Clark has also managed the strange feat of becoming more popular whilst arguably moving in less commercial and more creative directions. This latest record’s position at the top of our end of year list is only the latest accolade in a relatively short career that has regularly met with acclaim.
“I mean I don’t pretend to know, because who knows, no one has that much perspective on their own work.” I tend to be pretty myopic about the right now,” says Clark, a little reluctant to discuss escalating success and how Strange Mercy relates to her previous releases. “I’m not very good at the future or the past necessarily.
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