The musician St Vincent, a 34-year-old Texan whose real name is Annie Clark, is talking about body piercings. The strange comes via the writing and the composition, which on her four St Vincent albums since 2007 have tended towards the experimental and jagged-edged. Song to song, Clark might channel Björk then Iron Maiden, then belt out a disco number before pretending to be a fey, shoe-gazing whisper-singer. Facebook Twitter Pinterest St Vincent and Glass Animals play in London, February 2014. Photograph: London News Pictures/RexIn the museum, while leaning over a glass display of clay death masks and shrunken human heads, we discuss Clark’s scaling achievements as St Vincent.

Source: The Guardian August 19, 2017 09:56 UTC