St. Vincent has shared the video for Flea, the second single from her incoming album All Born Screaming, and as with Broken Man, the previously-released first taster of her new record, the track is powered by Dave Grohl's drumming.
“The second he kicks in on the first chorus of Flea, it’s just mind-blowing,” the alt.pop singer/songwriter, aka Annie Clark, enthused to The New Cue's Niall Doherty. “My whole musical life flashes before my eyes, and lightning up my spine, he just set me on fire. It’s so exciting to hear him play, and he’s playing on one of my songs, what?!”
Speaking to industry legend Doherty once more for UK music biz bible Music Week, Clark went deeper in sharing her joy at having the Foo Fighters frontman, and former Nirvana drummer, play on her record.
“I was like, ‘This doesn’t need somebody playing like Dave Grohl because nobody can play like Dave Grohl except Dave Grohl – this needs Dave Grohl because this needs thunder’," she explained. "He brings thunder. I called him over to my studio and first of all, it was a fun experience because we’re sitting and chatting and trading stories and he’s smoking Parliaments and then it’s like, ‘Alright, let’s go’ and he played through the songs, which he’d heard maybe three times but knows every twist and turn because he’s a great songwriter.”
Watch the video for Flea below:
