St Vincent - 4AD Session

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In September 2011, St Vincent took a giant leap forward with the release of third album, Strange Mercy. This time out Annie Clark was to combine her long-celebrated musical virtuosity with ambitious songwriting that ran a gamut of emotional cadences, all the while underpinned by a colourful sense of melody.
Recording these songs live for the first time, St Vincent performed four tracks from Strange Mercy for the tenth visual installment in the 4AD Session series. Shot at Shangri-La Studios in the heart of the Brooklyn film and photography district in Greenpoint, the session was recorded with Annie's new band, Daniel Mintseris (keys), Toko Yasuda (moog) and Matthew Johnson (drums). Given St Vincent's transgression from the underground to the pop spotlight over the course of three studio albums, it's somewhat fitting that Shangri-La host the session having initially earned its name as a secret spot known only through word of mouth.
For more info: www.4ad.com/sessions/010
Buy 'Strange Mercy' from 4AD here: 4ad.com/releases/565
Tracklisting:
1. Chloe In The Afternoon
2. Surgeon
3. Strange Mercy
4. Year Of The Tiger
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Listen to more St. Vincent's songs here bit.ly/39C0wwQ

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@theneedledrop 12 жыл бұрын

That guitar phrase she plays in "Surgeon": Awesome!

@tp6612 6 жыл бұрын

guitanthony riftfano

@marianocgomez 6 жыл бұрын

Sublime.

@gumbee9967 4 жыл бұрын

Me boiii

@lateraluis 4 жыл бұрын

Phraseony Playtano

@bobafat1830 4 жыл бұрын

shaddap

@The01Armando 9 жыл бұрын

Surgeon makes me feel like I'm floating through space in a time warp.

@keeyun15 8 жыл бұрын

this whole session is unbelievably amazing.

@KINGjulian32000 8 жыл бұрын

Strange Mercy helps me with my anxiety and complicated emotions. I love that song so much. Thank you Anne, for existing.

@mydessiasouthard8256 6 жыл бұрын

Exodus I am glad that I am not the only one. I suffer from anxiety and ptsd. Some of her music is anxiety inducing for me. Here's the kicker..... Her music may trigger some anxiety but in a good way giving it a safe place to manifest and play out. If I listen to her music before going places that trigger anxiety then I am less likely to have a panic attack while I am out.

@pangoo4425 29 күн бұрын

@@mydessiasouthard8256 Yes, totally agree! I like when she said "fuck" instead of "rough" in strange mercy, unlike the studio recording

@carpathianpsychonaut 2 жыл бұрын

Have just realised I've been watching this since it dropped in 2011 and still am in 2021. I think that says a lot about how wonderfully good it is.

@tommyo.7876 10 жыл бұрын

The solid editing work captures the essence of Annie's badassery. I dig.

@fugamante 10 жыл бұрын

Word.

@VintageVinylAudio 9 жыл бұрын

Badassery in deed.

@eo793 5 жыл бұрын

same

@andreabui9034 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Fully does.

@ProgRockLove 4 жыл бұрын

omg, perfect. #RT

@Y0H4N-Zero 7 жыл бұрын

I watch this video every few months, and it never gets old. She's so rad! Her band is great!

@markgrudzinski914 7 жыл бұрын

LOL, the whole reason why I'm currently here is that I wanted to play this in the background while working. Too bad I keep returning to the KZfaq tab to watch her loveliness...and her amazing guitar playing.

@gusdupree9076 7 жыл бұрын

Mark Grudzinski yeah she is beautiful,i know her girlfriend from suicide squad thinks so

@jamesha175 5 жыл бұрын

did you just say 'rad'?

@shininghappyperson7 9 жыл бұрын

*THAT LITTLE FRICKEN SMILE AFTER SURGEON*

@Taffy84 7 жыл бұрын

She makes the guitar playing on 'Surgeon' look effortless when it is not.

@SerenityAutumn 6 жыл бұрын

Taffy O'Keefe Right? Especially singing while doing that shit... Not easy at all!

@thedemonlilith3445 6 жыл бұрын

i know right D: I tried learning Surgeon and I thought my fingers were going to fall off. i cannot play that fast lmao

@MicahBuzanANIMATION 3 жыл бұрын

Stole the words from my mouth.

@joelmiddaugh8229 3 жыл бұрын

Her hands look like a machine playing that riff. Doesn't look that easy.

@101Volts 2 жыл бұрын

Because it is easy... To her. Just like Les Claypool playing "Jerry Was A Racecar Driver." Really, if you practice enough, it's not that big of a deal. It's like talking while walking.

@emmalouge123 9 жыл бұрын

I am so violently impressed right now. Holy cow.

@rasha_nahas 9 жыл бұрын

***** Accurate.

@geewhiz23 6 жыл бұрын

This set it incredible

@twilight4192 7 жыл бұрын

It's always a good thing to have your boundaries pushed farther back! I used to think this artist was just a lot of hype, but - this is actually BRILLIANT! Unconventional song-writing, imaginative arrangements, and really unique approach to Guitar-craft! This is ART-Music!

@marianoesa 3 жыл бұрын

What a sound! St Vincent usually sounds better in live performances than in the records

@thedogoffaleash 10 жыл бұрын

How can someone be that talented a guitarist, singer, and songwriter all at the same time?

@RC-xo6et 7 жыл бұрын

When someone is a badass, that's how.

@naigfof0 3 жыл бұрын

You must to be Annie for know it!

@celestinij 2 жыл бұрын

You must know PAIN. 😂

@st.v4969 Жыл бұрын

このメンバーが好きです

@origmnd 5 ай бұрын

Her and Prince

@mjvdg4194 Жыл бұрын

How have I only now found my way to St. Vincent? This is awesome!

@mikecsernyik7360 Жыл бұрын

Very good stuff, but she falls waaay off after the self titled album.

@Travmann777 10 жыл бұрын

I always come back to this session, at least once every 2 months or so. It's amazingly well shot, recorded and played. Everyone involved did their work perfectly.

@tehdii 2 жыл бұрын

I now understand your feeling :) Sipping whisky on a lazy Saturday's afternoon and this on headphones, glorious ;)

@jorginhopombinho6097 3 жыл бұрын

Her expression, her eyes are so bright when she sings this thoughtful lyrics

@cjscrazycars6479 6 жыл бұрын

st.vincent restored my faith in music.

@MileCad 12 жыл бұрын

i just love annie's artistry. the way she holds her guitar like an automatic weapon of massive elation. thanks for the over-saturation of aural/visual pleasure.

@101Volts 9 жыл бұрын

0:05 Chloe in the Afternoon 3:03 Surgeon 7:32 Strange Mercy 11:53 Year of the Tiger

@eduardorodrigueztoledo5512 8 жыл бұрын

thank you man!

@101Volts 8 жыл бұрын

+Eduardo Roth Sure, I love doing that. I just have one question: Why have some of my lists for songs vanished? Not in this video in particular, but other ones.

@LeckWare93 8 жыл бұрын

Maybe because the uploader wants the viewers to watch their video in its entirety.

@101Volts 6 жыл бұрын

Maybe.

@darbo.scalante 2 жыл бұрын

Why they (4AD) didn't add Cheerleader to the tracklist?

@migulrocks 10 жыл бұрын

Strange Mercy gave me goosebumps. God, she's so great.

@jeanarousi 10 жыл бұрын

I must have been watching this session already 5 times this week.

@Gustavostarke 10 жыл бұрын

You are not alone bro..

@synthoelectro 10 жыл бұрын

It's good to see avant-garde music hitting the ears of people for once.

@ringhloth 10 жыл бұрын

I had never really liked Strange Mercy (well, relative to her other songs) and have probably watched this whole video 3 or 4 times before tonight. But I just watched it again, payed close attention to the lyrcis and the way she sings it, and *ugh* it's just so great.

@jamesparker4215 10 жыл бұрын

This performance is the best I've seen in years.- absolutely great direction and camera work as well and what an amazing fat recording. Flat-out inspiring, songs with actual spirit and so many subtle yet powerful and fresh moves in the arrangements. Brilliance from all in the band. Shares a dreamlike creative playing field with Joni, Kate or Prince, but kicks it somewhere else. Moving. A real treasure.

@eyerock36 3 жыл бұрын

Almost ten years after this was released, I’m finding out about this artist for the first time. Very impressed!

@Dhakadice 3 жыл бұрын

You should see her live! :) Saw her 3 years ago at a festival when she was touring in support of the Los Ageless album.

@carlosfierro1916 3 жыл бұрын

Dude you came late to the party, who cares? Point is you're here! 😃

@MrMartind45 2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I'm 62 and always thought it all happened in the 60's and 70's. Just found out that's not true. Annie is a genius.

@jorginhopombinho6097 2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@angel_030 2 жыл бұрын

My friend who took her life recommended her years and years ago, I gotta pop back in every so often in her memory 💕

@DolfoLicks 3 жыл бұрын

After so many years I keep coming back and this performance is just perfect. Made me feel so good then, and keeps me holding on today.

@mayren9 12 жыл бұрын

Not only she's beautiful, she's talented....thanks for existing Annie

@georgekarams8014 9 жыл бұрын

Annie Clark is so indescribably beautiful as well as her music...

@uncleseanknows9047 3 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to this. It's such a fascinating performance and my personal favorite sample of Annie's genius. So thankful to live in the era of youtube.

@KremIsis 10 жыл бұрын

classy lady. she shows everything and still, is untouchable.

@odiewan67 Жыл бұрын

I'm not ready for the greatness of this

@bhekumuzigwala5688 7 жыл бұрын

She's like punk and avant-garde at the same time. She's brilliant.

@bloopville 10 жыл бұрын

Astounding level of talent.

@braxtonyanthon3692 7 жыл бұрын

it was so amazing i cried like a baby

@motownbrit 10 жыл бұрын

The ability to lend one's voice through a variety of styles, and retain original quality, is a rarity among today's artists. Wonderfully delicious vocals.

@jasonkittle326 10 жыл бұрын

I am 100% smitten with this talented individual. Annie Clark aka "St. Vincent." Not only is she very easy on the eyes she destroy's the guitar. She is also on a very good label as well. Balling out of control.

@cartercartercartercar 7 жыл бұрын

It's really tough for me to pick my favorite StV record. I get hooked on her self-titled and then I stumble back upon this

@victorialeif9266 5 жыл бұрын

Everything I listened to in my 20's was on 4AD.

@pyrobison2002 5 жыл бұрын

Victoria Leif check out Florrie and Annie Strand

@Treehamallama 8 жыл бұрын

weird music soothes my soul in the way other music cant, soothes my weird soul, i love this

@anneother6224 6 жыл бұрын

treehamallama A special welcome to the freaks and the others.

@Padenjs 11 жыл бұрын

the fact that she almost totally excludes traditonal pop structures but still writes the catchiest tunes around is part of what makes her music special and interesting. her first record was a little more traditional, and it was okay. but her last two records are masterpieces of art pop; simultaneously pretty, classy, distorted and austere.

@Y2KJCHRIS 8 жыл бұрын

I've never heard of them before this video, but I am now a huge fan!

@tomfromwinchell 12 жыл бұрын

when i saw her in concert last october, she was kind enough to sign my album as follows, "dear tom, i'll be with you lost boy." xo - annie. if my house ever caught fire, that album would be the first thing i would grab.

@crh4878 12 жыл бұрын

She's the best guitar player to come out in the last 5 years, imo

@Miensel 9 жыл бұрын

Anne Clark and St Vincent are the best Surgeon is just wonderful im in awe

@CatfishCameras 7 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when you don't let a desire for popularity obstruct creative genius.

@salo7227 5 жыл бұрын

Two years later and she has two Grammy's. She still has her integrity though. IMO this was her high point.

@CarlyonProduction 4 жыл бұрын

CatfishCameras so true, my friend.

@TheJATWolf 3 ай бұрын

Hell yeah

@stevesigfig524 6 жыл бұрын

So I'm a little late to the party. Just stumbled upon St. Vincent last week. So glad I did. Incredible. She's inspired me to get back into playing guitar after being in a rut for over half a decade. Fuck "shredders"; she's the most innovative musician I have come across since I got into playing music 16 years ago.

@jsnell126 12 жыл бұрын

she's got the craziest set up for her guitar effects. that pedal board in front of her is completely run through a MIDI controller which is plugged into the laptop that her keyboard player is sitting behind. he controls when the guitar tones change. most of these songs she has 3 or 4 changes from verse to chorus to solo.

@diannasion 9 жыл бұрын

I do not know what to say. This makes me confused and I love that. Annie is brilillant.

@BuddyCoopers 3 жыл бұрын

If the side players don't get the groove she can literally teach them on their own instruments. This lady is brilliant!

@-h-y-p-e-n- 10 жыл бұрын

This is so ridiculously amazing!!

@buttoneer63 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing, what a band, and how awesomely produced! Just wonderful how 4AD gave it to us. Annie and the band have to be one the hardest working bunch of musicians I've seen in a forever time, and the spectacle I've just beheld is nothing short of miraculous in my humble opinion. Bought me to tears. A beautiful work of art.......

@blairallison9116 9 жыл бұрын

Annie Clark... You are a purple haze storm of fingers. Soaked in Opera turpentine. So pure, you float daily between my smile. Thank you... Rock and roll...

@Michel_Gougeon 9 жыл бұрын

The guitar might say David Byrne and the voice Björk.. I would question those assertions. The only thing I'm sure of the whole package is Annie Clarke and I want more. Finally some quality 21st century Pop music.

@haustreviance 5 жыл бұрын

I know this comment is old as fuck but she did an album with Byrne.

@andrzejwachowiak8526 2 жыл бұрын

surgeon! masterpiece... U R so skilled Annie

@Mrbungleface0u818 3 жыл бұрын

My friend tried to get me into her years ago I just couldn't do it. I'm a guitar player.myself and her style rubbed me in so many wrong ways and Ive always loved obscure stuff. But I saw a video a month ago. And it bothered me still. I knew she was talented and had a style of her own but It triggers my critique and soul. So this last month I've been forcing myself to keep listening. The fact that it made me emotionally bothered intrigued my curiosity As a guitar player and musician. I'm finally getting it... Her studio albums are amazing. It's rare when I fall down a new rabbit hole like this.... She is amazing. I needed this

@user-zf5sq8lt2f 3 ай бұрын

She takes me to places i've never been to before.

@mconfive2nine 2 жыл бұрын

So immensely talented and creative. I just shake my head.

@NassosConqueso 10 жыл бұрын

Wow, that woman! That performance!

@chrisdeffer 9 жыл бұрын

I just CANNOT get over this. It just simply transcends anything I have ever heard before. ggggeeeez

@francescolurgo 8 жыл бұрын

not only an amazing performance, but also beautifully filmed

@chrisdeffer 9 жыл бұрын

oh my god....just brilliant

@anantasitsirisoot318 8 жыл бұрын

the world needs women like these; st vincent, bjork, pj harvey.

@12label 7 жыл бұрын

and Daughter, My Brightest Diamond, Anna Calvi, Kimbra, Agnes Obel too

@lando2051 7 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Angel Olsen, Fiona Apple, and Joanna Newsom.

@lottacalf2712 7 жыл бұрын

and Laura Marling !

@Laevetainne 7 жыл бұрын

Kate Bush too!

@aletheiaverite 6 жыл бұрын

lol no the world has good enough women already, annie clark and pj harvey are awesome but it doesn't make other women shitty

@EmilioMorenoMarugalLIBELYUS-8 6 жыл бұрын

I fall hypnotized watching the personal touch that this woman gives her songs playing guitar: it's total amazing.

@sursumdeorsumm 12 жыл бұрын

She's so beautiful that I don't know what to do

@vi_as_in_vinyl 7 жыл бұрын

With some of her songs, I need a few listens to wrap my head around the styles she uses before I truly start enjoying them. That being said, I didn't have that experience with any of the songs in this set; I loved them off the bat, although admittedly, further listening made me enjoy them even more. I can understand why some people wouldn't like them and might find them too strange, but I'm not one of those people. This is delightfully different in my eyes, and catchy as hell. I can lose myself in this music.

@pajaromegalomaniaco6438 6 жыл бұрын

Surgeon is so an amazing song omg

@flowbius 4 жыл бұрын

One of the sweetest guitarists! So gorgeous.

@michaelb8273 10 жыл бұрын

One of the most impressive musical performances i've seen of late.

@melinda3413 6 ай бұрын

Lost count of how many times I’ve watched this! So amazing!

@billymusicwb 10 жыл бұрын

She's got the stuff. I grow more and more interested the more I hear. Influences.... maybe Dexter Romweber, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Bowie, Bjork, PJ Harvey, Hoagy Carmichael, Don Preston, and Lao Tzu. These songs seem to have been discovered in the diatonic DNA of popular science primordial music soup. It makes my brain dance. I give it a 10.

@494CLC 9 жыл бұрын

Kate Bush

@wolly9734 6 жыл бұрын

Apparently she really loves Nick Cave as well, lil bit of an unlikely one but still cool to hear.

@yeldarbarrow3172 3 жыл бұрын

Annie knows her music she even covered a Big Black tune. Badassery indeed!

@LeoBowersMusic 9 жыл бұрын

Much respect for her input and concepts. She stands out as does her music as in ""different" meaning "not the same". The melodic values are expressive, she has my ear! Bravo!

@thecardboardgiraffe 11 жыл бұрын

The 'dirty policeman' part of Strange Mercy has been on non-stop repeat in my head for the last week. What an incredible piece of music from an incredible artist.

@Dafooser 9 жыл бұрын

I love this artist, l feel lucky I got to hear who St. Vincent and the music from she, the artist. She's definetly going to get haters, but that's only because she's going to get lovers.

@user-cu8jz4jn3s 9 жыл бұрын

Remarkable in every way

@dtkbop 7 жыл бұрын

Wow...She is smokin'!!! Love her guitar work. The band fits right into the whole vibe... Really happy to see them.

@MrJohnnyVengeance 12 жыл бұрын

She shreds that guitar without really shredding. Amazing.

@gracemcgavran2593 5 жыл бұрын

I watched this on acid it was the best

@user-ne8on8or6h Ай бұрын

That’s so cool of you

@coolangel834 9 жыл бұрын

Can we have one of these sessions for her new album?

@KulchurKat 8 ай бұрын

Over the years, I keep coming back to this video. My favourite incarnation of St Vincent, with Annie all insectoid jerks and siren voiced. And that guitar squall at the end of Surgeon! 🙌

@YardieLowProductions 11 жыл бұрын

This is guitar playing that I've always wanted to hear but never have. She is mind-blowing.

@diamondblu7 10 жыл бұрын

I love Annie Clark.

@MrFernando182100 8 жыл бұрын

Seriously who would dislike this?! I mean

@seanfleming5906 7 жыл бұрын

Soggy. Interesting word to describe music... may adopt that one. :)

@itsDelfi 7 жыл бұрын

People that don't understand it. It's not easy to listen to this music, it's not poppy, neither "radio friendly", and most of people prefer something that's comfortable for their ears rather than something experimental and with sense. I'm not throwing shit, it's just what it is.

@itsDelfi 7 жыл бұрын

***** You have a point, definetly, but from my personal perspective, I like to be challenged by these songs, in following the tempo with lots of twists, listen to those guitar sounds that are super original, etc. I don't agree with the "it's not catchy" statement because I don't think a song has to be catchy to be good, but I liked the "conceptual girl that was left alone" part, lol. Point being, it is NOT music for everyone, that's for sure, but I can respect your dislike because you actually know what your talking about, and it's just not your cup of tea, rather than people disliking it because it doesn't have a cute boy singing it.

@itsDelfi 7 жыл бұрын

***** And Astor is major word here in Argentina, obviously, 'cause being a genious...

@jaht3z 7 жыл бұрын

"catchy"?

@luisavalos8700 3 жыл бұрын

This has become my go too video for the last few months. I’ll always love St. V

@ep2bigd Жыл бұрын

This is timeless perfection, Annie is a legend!!!!

@mnmlbaez 7 жыл бұрын

She's beautiful

@jellycleaver5969 6 жыл бұрын

Wow! Only knew her most recent 2 albums before but seems like I need to get into her whole back catalouge now...

@MoonsickStridor 12 жыл бұрын

No one juxtaposes such elegance and unhinged raggedness the way only she does.

@skima744 6 жыл бұрын

I was far from being a St Vincent fan when I saw her play the Treasure Island festival in San Francisco years ago. As I watched her play, it seemed as if she stood ten feet tall. I felt like a snake being charmed by a snake charmer. I was instantly hooked from that time on. Her talent is immense.

@softlightsymphonyband 9 жыл бұрын

Like or hate her she is the real deal: plays and sings whats she wants and doesnt give a fuck what anyone says...

@nafpez 10 жыл бұрын

This woman is un fucking real! Genius talent!

@Mr.D34 2 жыл бұрын

Whoever directed this is a genius. Amazing performance from St. Vincent and the band. Especially "Surgeon" is amazing

@jackshel 2 жыл бұрын

I hear you Mr D !!

@queserai 11 жыл бұрын

never had goosebumps like this before. this just exudes such awesomeness.

@derekcutsinger3511 9 жыл бұрын

Damn. This is some cool shit.

@thecraziestofalldave 8 жыл бұрын

I would expect to hear this in a sci fi movie or show, it' s pretty fucking future.

@Yahoomediaclub 4 жыл бұрын

You certainly can’t hide sheer talent with added beauty and stunning an eye for detail and precise quality. Takes years...been a fan since the beginning...really has paid off. Well done⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎸⚡️

@alencett 11 жыл бұрын

How could someone possibly dislike this??

@dougcapehart 2 жыл бұрын

Jimi, Bowie, Prince, Annie

@tylerkupcho18 9 жыл бұрын

St Vincent: Kween

@breh9243 3 жыл бұрын

Its so good it makes me cry

@xxCallMeOberonxx 10 жыл бұрын

So, so beautiful. In every possible way. I could hear everything I wanted to hear in any song ever. Visually gorgeous too. My gosh. I've rarely been so amazed.

@canteenfloss 10 жыл бұрын

Check out her playing Kerosene. It will only deepen your amazement. Sorry, but I can't paste in the URL here for some reason. Search Big Black and St Vincent. there are two vids. The one with Kerosene only is pretty good quality.