“I wanted to make a party record you can play at a funeral”: so says Annie Clarke AKA St. Vincent of her hotly-anticipated eponymous fourth. And, while I wouldn’t recommend doing that per se, I can see what she means; musings on the Big Themes come wrapped in a slick, funky package, sonically indebted to her recent David Byrne collaboration, Love This Giant.  Love, life, sex and death: the gang’s all here. Listen carefully to the opening line of Birth In Reverse to discover what its protagonist does immediately after taking out the rubbish – I do hope she’s washed her hands.

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