St Vincent.
MUSIC
ST VINCENT
Howler, Brunswick, May 22 (until May 24, sold out)
She looks like a doll. With impossibly high cheekbones, long, spindly limbs, translucent skin and a shock of frizzy (dyed) grey hair, Annie Clark, better known as St Vincent, resembles a very pretty marionette.
She moves like one too, flipping her head to the side dramatically and shuffling jerkily backwards and forwards as if she’s a robot short-circuiting.
Worshipping at her altar is a room full of hipsters at Howler, a shiny new bar and performance space in Brunswick and the perfect venue for the 31-year-old Tulsa, Oklahoma native, darling of tastemaker music website Pitchfork, ex-Polyphonic Spree member and David Byrne collaborator. Clark’s live shows have always tended towards the theatrical, with that curious choreography, ceremonious spoken interludes and near-violent histrionics (Clark once broke her foot stage-diving at her own concert). To see all this unfold in an intimate space like Howler - where Clark has sold-out three shows - is a rare treat indeed.
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