- 2021-05-15
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MUSIC
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St. Vincent Releases New Album “Daddy's Home”: Streaming
American singer-songwriter Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent released sixth studio album “Daddy's Home” on May 14, 2021 via Loma Vista Recordings.
It is her first album in four years. She worked with Jack Antonoff on the album, who recently produced Lana Del Rey's album “Chemtrails over the Country Club” and Taylor Swift's album “Fearless (Taylor's Version)”.
“I was walking down the hall at Electric Lady Studios with Jack,” Annie Clark said. “and I was like, 'I want to make this down-and-out, downtown kind of record.' I was like, 'Yeah, this is it,' 'These sounds are warm, and they're literal, and they're evocative.'”
The album is inspired by her father's release from prison at the end of 2019, as well as the music in the first half of the 1970s. “I think that with my last record, I had gone as far as I could in a certain way with fly-out-of-the-speakers-and-grab-you-by-the-throat kinds of sounds,” she said. “[It's] post-flower-child idealism, but it's pre-disco. It's this period of time that I feel like is analogous to where we are now. We're in the grimy, sleazy, trying-to-figure-out-where-we-go-from-here period.”- 63lN88Rq60U
Annie Clark explained track-by-track for the album via Apple Music.
“Pay Your Way in Pain”
“This character is like the fixture in a 2021 psychedelic blues. And this is basically the sentiment of the blues: truly just kind of being down and out in a country, in a society, that oftentimes asks you to choose between dignity and survival. So it's just this story of one really bad fuckin' day. And just owning the fact that truly what everybody wants in the world, with rare exception, is just to have a roof over their head, to be loved, and to get by. The line about the heels always makes me laugh. I've been her, I know her. I've been the one who people kind of go, 'Oh, oh, dear. Hide the children's eyes.' I know her, and I know her well.”
“Down and Out Downtown”
“This is actually maybe my favorite song on the record. I don't know how other people will feel about it. We've all been that person who is wearing last night's heels at eight in the morning on the train, processing: 'Oh, where have we been? What did I just do?' You're groggy, you're sort of trying to avoid the knowing looks from other people—and the way that in New York, especially, you can just really ride that balance between like abandon and destruction. That's her; I've been her too.”
“Daddy's Home”
“The story is really about one of the last times I went to go visit my dad in prison. If I was in national press or something, they put the press clippings on his bed. And if I was on TV, they'd gather around in the common area and watch me be on Letterman or whatever. So some of the inmates knew who I was and presumably, I don't know, mentioned it to their family members. I ended up signing an autograph on a receipt because you can't bring phones and you couldn't do a selfie. It's about watching the tables turn a little bit, from father and daughter. It's a complicated story and there's every kind of emotion about it. My family definitely chose to look at a lot of things with some gallows humor, because what else are you going to do? It's absolutely absurd and heartbreaking and funny all at the same time. So: Worth putting into a song.”-
“Live in the Dream”
“If there are other touchpoints on the record that hint at psychedelia, on this one we've gone completely psychedelic. I was having a conversation with Jack and he was telling me about a conversation he had with Bruce Springsteen. Bruce was just, I think anecdotally, talking about the game of fame and talking about the fact that we lose a lot of people to it. They can kind of float off into the atmosphere, and the secret is, you can't let the dream take over you. The dream has to live inside of you. And I thought that was wonderful, so I wrote this song as if you're waking up from a dream and you almost have these sirens talking to you. In life, there's still useful delusions. And then there's delusions that—if left unchecked—lead to kind of a misuse of power.”
“Down”
“The song is a revenge fantasy. If you're nice, people think they can take advantage of you. And being nice is not the same thing as being a pushover. If we don't want to be culpable to something, we could say, 'Well, it's definitely just this thing in my past,' but at the end of the day, there's human culpability. Life is complicated, but I don't care why you are hurt. It's not an excuse to be cruel. Whatever your excuse is, you've played it out.”
“…At the Holiday Party”
“Everybody's been this person at one time. I've certainly been this person, where you are masking your sadness with all kinds of things. Whether it's dressing up real fancy or talking about that next thing you're going to do, whatever it is. And we kind of reveal ourselves by the things we try to hide and to kind of say we've all been there. Drunk a little too early, at a party, there's a moment where you can see somebody's face break, and it's just for a split second, but you see it. That was the little window into what's going on with you, and what you're using to obfuscate is actually revealing you.” - source : Apple Music
