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10.0
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The Guardian
Are we finally seeing the real Annie Clarke? Replacing alter egos with raw immediacy, she delivers one of her best albums: restlessly inventive and packed with ideas
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10.0
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Dork
An album that confidently states Annie Clark as one of the greatest songwriters around while
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9.8
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Northern Transmissions
St Vincent Returns with an authentically Badass album that is cinematic, innovative and transformative
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9.0
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Slant Magazine
A visceral examination of art and nature when both are pushed to the brink
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9.0
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All Music
Clark has more than earned the freedom she gives herself to express so many different sides to her music, and it's a thrill to hear her stretch out on these ferocious, heartbroken, and ultimately life-affirming songs
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Beats Per Minute
It is very hard to convey the sheer creative joy within these compositions Clark has come up with
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8.2
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Paste Magazine
The iconic, chameleonic rocker’s course-correcting seventh solo album is as harrowing as it is hopeful—and her heaviest yet
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8.0
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Under The Radar
All Born Screaming thrills for its directness, its momentum, and, crucially, its replayability. God rest St. Vincent. Long live Annie Clark
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8.0
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The Skinny
Annie Clark still has surprises to offer on St. Vincent's seventh album, the enigmatic and experimental All Born Screaming
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8.0
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God Is In The TV
Clark connected the playfulness of Daddy’s Home with the eclecticism of her early works, finally achieving one of her most unpredictable, disobedient, and wicked works to date
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8.0
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The Observer
Recreating the noises in her head, Annie Clark’s first fully self-produced album ranges across styles and emotions, and is her most direct yet
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8.0
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Mojo
A clearly cathartic album that further proves Annie Clark to be a brilliant and multifaceted musical force. Print edition only
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8.0
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The FT
The singer-songwriter’s latest record focuses less on role playing and more on exploring extreme states of mind
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8.0
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The Independent
Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album is smart, cohesive and refreshingly tight
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8.0
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The Arts Desk
Rich in Rid Of Me-era PJ Harvey distortion and sludgy guitars straight from Seattle
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
It’s music that evokes the terror we all share in just being alive, and the way that fighting through it is a form of constant rebirth we all share, too. That’s the kind of truth this album excavates and celebrates many times, and why this is some of Annie Clark’s most satisfyingly urgent music yet
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8.0
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NME
With album seven, Annie Clark has peeled away the layers of artifice to reveal her most unique identity yet: herself
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8.0
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musicOMH
Annie Clark has made a restless, mercurial, kaleidoscopic record that will really alienate some yet completely bewitch the rest
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
This is the sound of releasing a lifetime’s worth of strife and unease. That sounds, it turns out, is pretty damn excellent
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7.8
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Pitchfork
Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album goes for a hard reset on the St. Vincent project. She retains her sharp edge as a songwriter while making the music sound exalting, inspiring, and thoroughly romantic
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7.6
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Spectrum Culture
Clark has always been more of a storyteller than a memoirist, and All Born Screaming finds her getting back to communicating something human as opposed to something about her
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7.0
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PopMatters
On All Born Screaming, St. Vincent suggests the end of life is really just a new beginning. Love is the purpose. There is no joy without pain
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7.0
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Exclaim
On All Born Screaming, Clark sounds more at home than she has in a while, but all planets inevitably die — perhaps the next one she lands on will finally be her own
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The Irish Times
Taut, funk-fuelled and innately human
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