"Hello, gorgeous!” swooned St Vincent, greeting Somerset House’s courtyard with a hammy sigh, theatrically brushing invisible dirt off her shoulders. “What a fuckshow!” she exclaimed, gesturing vaguely in the direction of the world outside. “But I’m so glad we’re all here together in the fuckshow.”
Annie Clark, has been touring her most recent record All Born Screaming since its release back in April last year, but skipped a run of London dates in favour of a one-off show at Royal Albert Hall. Though she brought intensity and some of her heaviest guitar lines to date to the prestigious concert venue, she largely eschewed the eccentricity and theatricality that has come to define her live shows in favour of something much more straightforward. For most artists, rattling through the hits would be nothing unexpected; but from St Vincent - an artist who once toured 2017’s new wave record MASSEDUCTION as a lone absurdist figure playing guitar in front of a closed theatre curtain - sticking to convention isn’t how she usually plays things.
