With her eloquent songwriting and inventive guitar playing, St. Vincent's Annie Clark excels at subverting rock and pop conventions. A Berklee School of Music student whose love of Nirvana and Soundgarden inspired her to learn guitar, she introduced her genre-bending approach on 2007's Marry Me, a literate, affecting fusion of indie, rock, electronic, and jazz. As the years passed, she achieved a rare balance of critical and commercial success: Clark made her chart debut with the complex storytelling of 2009's Actor; became the first solo female artist to win the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album in 20 years with 2014's icy, witty St. Vincent; and cracked the Billboard Top Ten with the anti-pop of 2017's Grammy-winning MASSEDUCTION. After making the warmth and sleaze of the '70s her own on 2021's Daddy's Home, she continued to challenge her listeners and herself with 2024's self-produced, industrial-tinged All Born Screaming.
