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Oct 16, 2017 St. Vincent By Christopher Roberts

St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) released her new album, MASSEDUCTION, last Friday via Loma Vista. Now a Japanese bonus track has shown up online, “政権腐敗,” which is pronounced “seiken fuhai” and translates to “Power Corrupts.” It’s essentially a Japanese version of the album’s title track, “Masseduction,” and it features Japanese musician Toko Yasuda. Listen below (via Stereogum).

St. Vincent also stopped by the BBC music show Later… with Jools Holland to perform “New York” clad in a leopard print body suit and accompanied only by a pianist wearing a shiny red Mexican wrestler mask. Also on the show she covered Patsy Cline’s classic “Crazy” and that’s surfaced over at Consequence of Sound, where you can watch it.

St. Vincent previously shared MASSEDUCTION track “New York” (it was our #1 Song of the Week), as well as a colorful video for the song. She also shared another song from it, “Los Ageless” (which was also our #1 Song of the Week), as well as a vibrant video for “Los Ageless” in which Clark got plastic surgery. She also stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform “New York” on the broadcast show and “Los Ageless” as a web-exclusive. Then she shared the song “Pills,” which tackles our culture’s over-reliance on medications and features vocals from Cara Delevingne and Jenny Lewis and saxophone from Kamasi Washington.

Clark co-produced the album with Jack Antonoff, which was mainly recorded at Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan, with additional recording at Rough Consumer Studio in Brooklyn and Compound Fracture in Los Angeles. The album was announced via a slightly strange and awkward Facebook live press conference (she revealed that she secretly hates musicals).

Clark says this album is more autobiographical than her previous three albums. “Every record I make has an archetype,” she says in a press release. “Strange Mercy was Housewives on Pills. St. Vincent was Near-Future Cult Leader. MASSEDUCTION is different, it’s pretty first person. You can’t fact-check it, but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record.” In the press conference Clark said “this record’s about love.”

Clark previously announced a fall tour she’s dubbing the “Fear the Future Tour” and also shared a funny announcement video for the tour.

It was also recently announced that Clark has been tapped to direct her first feature film. It will be a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, but with a twist: the title character will now be female, rather than male.

The American jewelry company Tiffany & Co. recently launched their fall 2017 campaign and it starred St. Vincent, among others. Yesterday Tiffany released a new ad that features St. Vincent covering The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” Clark doesn’t show up in the ad, which features black & white images of models Vittoria Ceretti, Julia Nobis, Anchok Majak, and Georgina Grenville mouthing the words to the song.

Also be sure to read our Best of 2014 Issue cover story article on St. Vincent.

St. Vincent “Fear the Future” Tour Dates:

10/17 - London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton
10/18 - Manchester, UK - O2 Apollo Manchester
10/20 - Dublin, Ireland - Olympia Theatre
10/23 - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
10/24 - Paris, France - Le Trianon
10/26 - Berlin, Germany - Huxleys
10/27 - Utrecht, Netherlands - TivoliVrendenburg
11/14 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore
11/15 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room
11/17 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater
11/18 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theater
11/19 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
11/20 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
11/21 - Louisville, KY - The Kentucky Center
11/22 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
11/24 - Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre
11/25 - Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center
11/27 - Washington, DC - The Anthem
11/28 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
11/30 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
12/1 - Portland, ME - State Theatre
12/2 - Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre
12/3 - Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre
12/16-12/17 - Houston, TX - Day For Night Festival
1/9 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
1/10 - Columbus, OH - Express Live
1/12 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
1/13 - Omaha, NE - Kiewit Concert Hall at Holland Performing Arts Center
1/15 - Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium
1/19 - Seattle, WA - The Moore Theatre
1/20 - Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium
1/22 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
1/25 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
1/26 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
1/27 - San Diego, CA - Observatory

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