Few artists have done more for carrying the banner of guitar rock proudly into the 21st century than St. Vincent. A notorious shredder, she cut her teeth as a member of Sufjan Stevens’ touring band before releasing her debut album <i>Marry Me</i> in 2007. Since then, her reputation as a six-string samurai has been cemented in the wake of a run of critically acclaimed albums and collaborations (she co-wrote Taylor Swift’s No 1. single “Cruel Summer”).

A shape-shifter of the highest order, St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, has always put visual language on equal footing with her sonic output. Most recently, she released 2021’s <i>Daddy’s Home</i>, a conceptual period piece that pulled inspiration from ’70s soul and glam set in New York City. That project marked the end of an era visually—gone are the bleach-blonde wigs and oversized Times Square-ready trench coats—as well as creatively. With <i>All Born Screaming</i>, she bids adieu to frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, who produced <i>Daddy’s Home</i>, and instead steps behind the boards for the first time to produce the project herself.

“For me, this record was spending a lot of time alone in my studio, trying to find a new language for myself,” Clark tells Apple Music’s Hanuman Welch. “I co-produced all my other records, but this one was very much my fingerprints on every single thing. And a lot of the impetus of the record was like, ‘Okay: I'm in the studio and everything has to start with chaos.’”

For Clark, harnessing that chaos began by distilling the elemental components of what makes her sound like, well, her. Guitar players, in many respects, are some of the last musicians defined by the analog. Pedal boards, guitar strings, and pass-throughs are all manipulated to create a specific tone. It’s tactile, specialized, and at times, yes, chaotic.

“What I mean by chaos,” Clark says, “is electricity actually moving through circuitry. Whether it's modular synths or drum machines, just playing with sound in a way that was harnessing chaos. I've got six seconds of this three-hour jam, but that six seconds is lightning in a bottle and so exciting, and truly something that could only have happened once and only happened in a very tactile way. And then I wrote entire songs around that.”

Those songs cover the spectrum from sludgy, teeth-vibrating offerings like “Flea” all the way to the lush album cut (and ode to late electronic producer SOPHIE) “Sweetest Fruit.” Clark relished in balancing these light and dark sounds and sentiments—and she didn’t do so alone. “I got to explore and play and paint,” she says. “And I also luckily had just great friends who came in to play on the record and brought their amazing energy to it.” <i>All Born Screaming</i> features appearances from Dave Grohl, Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, and Welsh artist Cate Le Bon, among others.

Le Bon pulled double duty on the album by performing on the title track as well as offering clarity for some of the murkier production moments. “I was finding myself a little bit in the weeds, as everyone who self-produces does,” Clark says. “And so I just called Cate and was like, ‘I need you to just come hold my hand for a second.’ She came in and was a very stabilizing force, I think, at a time in the making of the record when I needed someone to sort of hold my hand and pat my head and give me a beer, like, ‘It's going to be okay.’”

With <i>All Born Screaming</i>, Clark manages to capture the bloody nature of the human experience—including the uncertainty and every lightning-in-a-bottle moment—but still manages to make it hum along like a Saturday morning cartoon. “The album, to me, is a bit of a season in hell,” she says. “You are a little bit walking on your knees through some broken glass—but in a fun way, kids. We end with this sort of, ‘Yes, life is difficult, but it's so worth living and we've got to live it. Can't go over it, can't go under it, might as well go through it.’ It's black and white and the colors of a fire. That, to me, is sonically what the record is.”

TVアニメ呪術廻戦EDテーマ、ドコモ TV CM曲含む全12曲収録のアルバム
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• 挑戰雙貝斯編曲。與日本傳奇搖滾樂團「東京事變」貝斯手龜田誠治 ，共創歌曲〈名字 Name〉。
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• 與創作歌手、雀斑樂團主唱斑斑（林以樂）合作〈快樂王子 Happy Prince〉，舒暢明快的搖滾風格，詮釋英國文豪王爾德寓言故事《快樂王子與其他故事》。

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2007年にゴンザレス三上(GONTITI)のソロアルバムに参加し、参加曲が京王グループTV-CMに起用された。
それぞれが演奏スタイルにショーロの影響を受けつつも独自の感性でスリリングに歌い上げる、多方面から注目のインストユニット。
2008年7月、1stアルバム「antique」、20011年2ndアルバム「Frevo!」をリリース、両タイトルともに現在までロングセールス中。

今年的确是英伦音乐丰收的一年，我们看到了许多老将的复出，当然也有许多崭露头角的新人，而最轰动的莫过于这对临时组合，之前我已经大幅报道了这次合作，而且也让大家提前欣赏了他们的Ep作品，The Rascals也许对大家来说还相对陌生，我本人非常喜欢，只是现在越来越觉得他们的音乐有浓重的猴子味了，激进复古的朋克口味，突出的吉他Riff无论从演艺技巧上来说甚至都可以说是在模仿，那其实并不是我想要的。不知道Alex给他们灌输了多少理念，这次倒好，乾脆直接把领头的Kane拉过来合作，难道真的有点相见恨晚的感觉？前几天已经听过了专辑中的大部分歌曲，不过知道今天才收齐，按照Alex自己所说的，这会是张偏流行的作品， Bacharach-style pop？不清楚是啥风格，又或是创造他们自己所独特的风格来膜拜那些他们所欣赏的乐队，听来比较夸大，傲慢，甚至被外界评论为愚蠢的想法，但你还是不得不佩服他们的无畏。其实仔细看看Alex所写的歌词，简简单单大多透露出这次合作的愉快和舒心之旅，能找到Kane这种知音似乎比得大奖还要过瘾。而 Alex，Kane的和声真的可以说配合的相当不错，说不上唯美动听，但至少难以释怀，蠢蠢欲动的情感迸发，随着飞驰的鼓声和吉他的拨弄让整个境界得以升华，对我来说，没有辜负自己的好奇心，也没有辜负这次看热闹的人。

晃晃悠悠的時間長河，能夠帶我們去到什麼方向？
既然人生必定跌跌撞撞，不如將心頭鬆綁────
成為自由的水吧。
「都市裡朦朧的日常療癒系」
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2020首張正式專輯《水可以去任何地方》
與心跳同步怦然，和車樓光影交錯，在城市的大湖面上浮換氣再下潛泅泳。傾聽來自台北的樂團「緩緩」，透明的歌聲裡，記憶如海潮般拍打上岸，陪你行經每一個日常。
成軍 5 年的首張正式專輯《水可以去任何地方》，完整呈現了緩緩從最初對後搖滾、瞪鞋的熱愛中，轉向更為民謠搖滾的療癒景色。主唱兼吉他手 Coco、貝斯手阿柏、鼓手一珍，三人化作緊密堅實的陣形，為忙碌的生活撐開一片自然夢境。專輯名稱暗喻不論年紀再大、收入再豐厚，人生都逃不了迷惘的關卡。與其害怕，不如把迷惘視為必然，積極地迎向它、跨越它。當圍繞的杯子不復在，水也就能流向任何地方。
在知名製作人黃榮毅、沈簡單初期帶領下，緩緩美麗地長出自己的獨特形狀，也扛起大部份的製作工作。透過他們的音樂鏡頭，可以窺見揮之不去的過往，照亮人們視而不見的角落，也搖撼缺乏激情的平凡。日出又日落，一起踏上風的節拍，任這一絲浪漫在你臉上留下輕輕的微笑。

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