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Annie Clark made her recorded debut as St. Vincent in 2007 with Marry Me, quickly becoming regarded as one of the most innovative and fascinating presences in modern music. Her subsequent albums would include Actor 2009, Strange Mercy 2011, her selftitled fourth album and winner of the 2014 GRAMMY for Best Alternative Album. In 2017, her fifth album MASSEDUCTION would break St. Vincent into the U.S. and UK top 10s and win two more GRAMMYs Best Rock Song for its title track, and Best Recording Package.nbspnbsp 2021rsquos Daddyrsquos Home found St. Vincent channeling the hungover glamor and gritty sepiatoned soundtrack of 1970s downtown NYC to an ecstatic reception, ultimately winning her a second Best Alternative Album GRAMMY. Following a 20212022 global tour that reaffirmed St. Vincentrsquos status as one of live musics preeminent forces with headline appearances at the likes of the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City Music Hall, Clark would begin work on album number seven Her first fully selfproduced album having coproduced every one of her previous efforts, All Born Screaming is St. Vincent at her most primal.nbsp Featuring Clark leading ldquoa curated group of rippersrdquo through the brawny ldquoBroken Man,rdquonbsp the mordant catwalk sashay through the deafening assault of selfloathing that is ldquoBig Time Nothing,rdquo the sublime, elegiac earworm ldquoSweetest Fruit, All Born Screaming is equal parts spiritual desolation and rapturous acceptance. ldquoIf yoursquore born screaming, thatrsquos a great sign,rdquo says Clark, ldquobecause it means yoursquore breathing. Yoursquore alive. My god. Itrsquos joyous. And then itrsquos also a protest. Wersquore all born in protest in a certain way. Itrsquos terrifying to be alive, itrsquos ecstatic to be alive. Itrsquos everything.rdquo
