Name: Strange Mercy
Brand: St. Vincent

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CAD-3123-1

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Colour

Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2011-09-13

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

652637312317

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Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

St. Vincent

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

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Annie Clark, known by her stage name St. Vincent, is a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She began playing guitar at the age of 12 and was influenced by her uncle Tuck Andress of the jazz duo Tuck & Patti. Along with guitar, Clark also plays piano, organ, drums, bass guitar, theremin, and vibraphone.
Throughout her career, she has collaborated and toured with various artists including The Polyphonic Spree, David Byrne, The Black Keys, and Sufjan Stevens. In 2013, Clark received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for her contributions to music.
In 2014, she had the honor of performing with the remaining members of Nirvana at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Additionally, [m=657709], one of her albums won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2015.

Across three albums, the Dallas native has become a master of subverting her picture-perfectness with violence, rage, and mystery— "I'll make you sorry," sang Clark in creepy lullaby tones on the very first song on her debut album. The juxtaposition is naturally intriguing, a sophisticated twist on finding out that the horror-movie killer was actually the girl next door all along. "Physically, I'm a very demure-looking person," Clark said in a recent Pitchfork interview, "but I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow." On her fine, art-rocking debut, Marry Me, those feelings of hurt, loss, and bloodlust could translate a tad cutesy. (On new track "Cheerleader", the lines, "I've played dumb when I knew better/ Tried too hard just to be clever," sound more self-consciously frank than usual.) Follow-up Actor found Clark over-embellishing at times, adding superfluous strings and flutes that often muddied her message.

Strange Mercy

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