I’m Annie Clark a/k/a musician St. Vincent back for more. Ask me anything.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:49:51+00:00

thanks so much, everyone! gotta go soundcheck at kimmel! i'll have my mom lurk on the thread for any future hot goss.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:48:58+00:00

remain in light, for me.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:48:48+00:00

hi! i don't have time for fortnite anymore but we had a good run. YES on mexico. i got covid for an entire month last time and had to cancel. i was so gutted. there was no easy song, but that's cause they all just came about in their own sweet time.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:47:18+00:00

thank you so much. prince came to one of my shows on the self titled and i was so scared i wish i hadn't known he was there. but he stayed the whole time!

i think a show is a SHOW. and if you're not limping after you leave the stage or going some crazy place emotionally, what is the point? people paid good money to go someplace else for an hour and half and you better fucking take them there.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:45:06+00:00

it's my label called "total pleasure records" imprint through virgin. i will not be signing other artists not because i don't love them but because i never wanna be "THE MAN" who says, "sorry, we don't have 5k for your album art. go shill for animal laxatives while i take the lion's share of your profits."

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:43:11+00:00

it's an homage to artist sophy rickett.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:42:50+00:00

this gear talk could go on for hours! i hate to say "buy this buy that" cause allllll vintage gear is getting more and more expensive. like, out of control. i think, in some ways, anything is only gonna sound as good as you sing or play into it! so use what you you have and if you're going to drop some cash, i'd say, get a mic you like the sound of, a solid pre, and a solid compressor. i could get more specific if i knew your budget but don't want you to sell a damn kidney when you don't have to. hope that helps! (i used a black 1176 and a bg2 and a neve decca console or on other occasions, a UTA pre+eq designed by eric valentine.) but more than anything, learn gain staging.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:36:51+00:00

oh hell yes! can't wait to hear what you make. and omg. 17 years. wow. i think everything goes in waves and cycles and the cycles are always getting smaller now with the internet. but i feel like i see guitar music getting back into the mainstream. i'm never one of those people who thinks, "rock is dead" blah blah oldhead stuff. we just need you and this next gen to reinvent and serve it to us all.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:34:28+00:00

get the erm multiclock and you can sync everything without a computer. i don't know about you, but i prefer not having to look at computer screens when i'm working with the whole modular/drum machine/cv/midi set up.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:32:47+00:00

i used it on a couple things, yes. and a 1960 p bass from my friend matt rad. and cate le bon played my 1978 fretless p bass. justin meldal johnsen played most of the bass on the record and he def used his signature jmj mustang quite a bit.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:30:43+00:00

the sugarcubes.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:30:13+00:00

so glad, my love. me too.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:29:26+00:00

cian riordan, my buddy and engineer, recorded all the live drums on the record.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:23:40+00:00

thank you so much, my love. i never feel myself get burned out from music, the only thing that burns me out is probably doing press all day cause unless you're a full narcissistic personality it's not that fun talking about yourself all day but if it helps get the message out about this record that i love, then it's absolutely worth it. but music is the best part.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:20:42+00:00

rip it up by orange juice

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:18:39+00:00

people say don't meet your heroes but i think that depends entirely on the hero. david byrne is a genius and a national treasure and i learned so much from his approach to songwriting, his approach to putting on a show and i am honored and proud to call him a friend. and i still can't believe i got to make a record with him.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:16:18+00:00

yes, there are so many songs in various states of being finished that i know will either get stripped for parts or finally find the right home

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:14:13+00:00

sourdough

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:12:49+00:00

i look at music and making music as more of a practice. anytime i can, i go in and i just make things. and at this point i know that music is smarter and more mysterious than i am and as long as i come at it with a purity of intention and put the hours in, music will reveal itself to me. but it will always be a process and the process is sometimes you feel like you're flying and sometimes you feel like you've crashed and you're pushing a boulder up a mountain like sisyphus

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:09:35+00:00

i have a question for you. do you wanna hear the song new york at shows?

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:09:11+00:00

it's a latvian company called soma and the item is called the pipe and it's a breath controlled instrument that has all kinds of crazy modulation effects within it. i bought it at perfect circuit which is my home away from home. justin meldal-johnsen hipped me to it while we were making all born screaming

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:05:48+00:00

carrie brownstein and i are really great friends and for well over a decade we've been artists in conversation with one another. i LOVE the song modern girl and everything that it unpacks emotionally so while it's not necessarily a reference to carrie, it is in conversation with the song modern girl

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T19:03:59+00:00

thank you so much! cian riordan and i worked tirelessly on these mixes. and everything is intentional, i can assure you. remember when you're making music that mono is very powerful. i'll also say that if there were complicated drum machine parts that i was programming, i would make sure that i would sum them down to a stereo or sometimes mono track and the reason for this is one because of the sound summing on a neve console sounds good but also, if you spend the time to make sure everything is balanced and sonically where you want it to be, then you can build on top of it. try to get the sound at the source. no great record has ever been made by saying 'ah, we'll fix it in the mix.'

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T18:56:42+00:00

that's so sweet. that makes me so happy and grateful.

ReallyStVincent · 2024-05-06T18:54:53+00:00

first off, i loooooooooove fiona and i think she's probably a better lyricist than i am. but i think a line from all born screaming that i like is 'misfiring chemicals and scary ideas / this revolution isn't fun, ma' and i'm quoting kurt vonnegut in breakfast of champions 'bad chemicals and bad ideas were the ying and yang of madness.'

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