Each St. Vincent album has been honest, often brutally so. But “All Born Screaming” is brutally honest and ragefully raw and triumphant and a 40-minute catharsis. She performs at MGM Music Hall Thursday.
Annie Clark wrote a song called “All Born Screaming” in her early 20s. It wasn’t any good. But Clark liked the title and wanted to use it someday.
“I knew I needed to live more life to be worthy of this title,” she told the Herald ahead of her Thursday show at MGM Music Hall.
Two decades later, Clark — who records and performs as St. Vincent — named her new album “All Born Screaming.” St. Vincent’s seventh LP dives fast and hard into the deep end with songs about overwhelming grief, existential woe, the chaos and glory of life. It’s worthy of the title.
Each St. Vincent album has been honest, often brutally so (see 2021 LP “Daddy’s Home” about her father’s release from prison after a 12-year sentence for fraud). But “All Born Screaming” is brutally honest and ragefully raw and triumphant and a 40-minute catharsis.
“Life gives you the themes because I write about exactly what I’m going through,” Clark said of her inspiration for the album.
