★★★★★
St. Vincent's new self-titled album is something unusual. It's delightfully catchy, full of synth vibrancy, art-house intrigue and a touch of abstract rock influence. It doesn't try to fit in, it doesn't even try to stand out, it ends up just content with being, floating off in an audio wasteland. Too cool to be left alone, but not cool enough to be popular. Most would equate this with mediocrity...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2014-04-03
★★★★★
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St. Vincent - St. VincentSt. Vincent - St. VincentRelease Date: February 25, 2014
Record Label: Loma Vista/Republic
The self-titled album is largely regarded as an artist's statement album along with the correlation that this will be the essential sound/release/etc. of said artist. And St. Vincent is one hell of a statement, as Annie Clark accomplishes this (and then some)...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2014-03-15
★★★★★
The self-titled album is largely regarded as an artist's statement album along with the correlation that this will be the essential sound/release/etc. of said artist. And St. Vincent is one hell of a statement, as Annie Clark accomplishes this (and then some). Clark's music has continuously grown more brazen and bold since her 2007 debut, Marry Me and St. Vincent takes us deeper into her bag of tricks...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-03-14
★★★★★
St. Vincent(Loma Vista/Republic) "Oh, what an ordinary day/Take out the garbage, masturbate," muses Annie Clark against a glam-rock guitar lick on early single "Birth in Reverse." Fact is, nothing's ordinary about St. Vincent, nom de rock of the Dallas-reared multi-instramentalist. She's forged a career of salting over what otherwise would be pop with an ass-kick of reverb, macabre lyricism, and odd instrumental flourishes that knock her music just left enough of center...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
It feels kinda bizarre that a record dotted with so many exclamation points should be so between-feeling, but here we are. Over the last few years, Annie Clark has gradually become a Big Figure, something that might have as much to do with her complex, nervy, strange music as it does with watching her tear it up on the guitar...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2014-03-11
★★★★★
Tweet Be Yourself There is no other artist in the digital age that can make binary sound downright sinister, and if that's not a ringing endorsement of St. Vincent's eponymous fourth album, read on for further praise because there's not a single track that falters. Each warble of Annie Clark's vocals, bent synth pitch and crackling thump of percussion takes the artist to new heights. The LP's two singles, "Birth in Reverse" and "Digital Witness" meld into the album effortlessly...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-03-05
★★★★★
Accomplished guitarist and session musician turned indie darling, St. Vincent (Annie Clark) continues her transformation project with her fourth release, the eponymous St. Vincent.
Heralding a more revolutionary than evolutionary change, what's immediately obvious is the finery and detail of her previous work has taken a back seat here to cleaner, sharper lines and more purposeful messaging...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2014-03-03
★★★★★
Alone in the Texan desert, Annie Clark takes off her clothes and feels at one with her surroundings. She asks, "Am I the only one?"; the answer given back by this fourth St. Vincent LP is a resounding no. And much as isolation is not necessarily synonymous with loneliness, reaching out to others, both on the internet and in real life, in modern times is filled with risk and even absurdity to Clark's mind...
- www.state.ie
2014-03-03
★★★★★
?????????? When an established artist chooses to self-title a new record, it feels like an attempt to rebrand, or more firmly encapsulate the artist's view in a single statement. It says "this record is who I am and what my music is all about." Apropos, then, that Annie Clark's new "self-titled" record, her fourth under her St. Vincent moniker, listens like something of a manifesto...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2014-02-28