Prior to going solo, St Vincent, aka 25-year-old singer-songwriter Annie Clark, was a musician-for-hire, playing for both Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens’s touring band – and there are echoes of both those cult acts in her sweetly eccentric debut album Marry Me.
What she has in common with Stevens is a multi-instrumental approach to folk that ensures you’re as likely to hear a marimba solo as a softly-plucked acoustic guitar. From Polyphonic Spree she takes a fondness for massed, choral-style backing vocals. And from both acts she borrows an overarching mood of starry-eyed, child-like wonder.
Now Now is typical of Clark’s whimsical style, framed by a clattering, lopsided drumbeat and opening with the arresting lyric, “I’m not your mother’s favourite dog.” Which is handy to know.
You can download Now Now from iTunes.
Alternatively, the song is being hosted on French blog Streetkiss. Or you can stream it on Myspace.
11:54 AM | 17/10/2007
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