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All Born Screaming

St. Vincent

All Born Screaming

Seventh album of experimental indie pop from Annie Clark featuring contributions from Dave Grohl, Cate Le Bon, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Josh Freese and Stella Mozgawa

ADM rating[?]

8.1

Label
Virgin Music
UK Release date
26/04/2024
US Release date
26/04/2024
  1. 10.0 |   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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  2. 10.0 |   Dork

    An album that confidently states Annie Clark as one of the greatest songwriters around while
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  3. 9.8 |   Northern Transmissions

    St Vincent Returns with an authentically Badass album that is cinematic, innovative and transformative
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  4. 9.1 |   A.V. Club

    Annie Clark's seventh studio album as St. Vincent is a sonic collage of the past 50 years of pop and rock
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  5. 9.0 |   Slant Magazine

    A visceral examination of art and nature when both are pushed to the brink
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  6. 9.0 |   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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  7. 8.4 |   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. 8.2 |   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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  9. 8.0 |   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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  10. 8.0 |   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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  11. 8.0 |   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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  12. 8.0 |   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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  13. 8.0 |   Mojo

    A clearly cathartic album that further proves Annie Clark to be a brilliant and multifaceted musical force. Print edition only

  14. 8.0 |   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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  15. 8.0 |   The Independent

    Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album is smart, cohesive and refreshingly tight
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  16. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Rich in Rid Of Me-era PJ Harvey distortion and sludgy guitars straight from Seattle
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  17. 8.0 |   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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  18. 8.0 |   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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  19. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Annie Clark has made a restless, mercurial, kaleidoscopic record that will really alienate some yet completely bewitch the rest
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  20. 8.0 |   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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  21. 7.8 |   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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  22. 7.6 |   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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  23. 7.0 |   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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  24. 7.0 |   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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  25. 7.0 |   The Irish Times

    Taut, funk-fuelled and innately human
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  26. 7.0 |   Far Out

    All Born Screaming is St. Vincent in her purest form. It’s just a shame that, sometimes, that form is shrouded in busy soundscapes and straightforward rock
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