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Nov 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts St. Vincent

St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) released her new album, MASSEDUCTION, last month via Loma Vista. Now she has shared a video for “Pills.” Philippa Price directed the clip, which plays off the theme of the song and features various stylish looking people taking pills and dancing. Alas it’s a TIDAL exclusive, so you have to watch it over there.

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.

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 (and also covered Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”). We also shared a Japanese bonus track, “政権腐敗,” which is pronounced “seiken fuhai” and translates to “Power Corrupts.” Plus she covered The Clash’s “London Calling” for BBC Radio 1. She also performed “Los Ageless” on Ellen.

St. Vincent she was also the musical guest on the BBC late night talk show The Graham Norton Show where she performed “Los Ageless,” playing her guitar and dressed like she was a stylish member of The X-Men, while backing dancers with guitars moved in silhouette on the other side of a screen behind Clark. She then moved to the couch to be interviewed by Norton about the guitar she designed and her album cover. Also on the couch were the cast members of Murder on the Orient Express (director/star Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dame Judi Dench, and Josh Gad) and Depp and Gad joked about MASSEDUCTION‘S album cover.

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).

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

St. Vincent “Fear the Future” Tour Dates:

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
1/11 - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theatre
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
2/15 - Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
2/17 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
2/18 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City
2/19 - New Orleans, LA - Civic Theatre
2/22 - Austin, TX - ACL Live
2/24 - Dallas, TX - Bomb Factory
2/26 - Tulsa, OK - Cain’s Ballroom
3/1 - Charlotte, NC - Fillmore
3/2 - Richmond, VA - The National
3/3 - Norfolk, VA - NorVa
3/4 - Baltimore, MD - Hippodrome

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