This is my favorite St Vincent album in a very very long time

There's some good songs and some meh songs here. If she's happy with it, then can't judge

Loved damn near every song

Pay Your Way In Pain
Down & Out Downtown
LIVE IN THE DREAM
Somebody Like Me

I wish it was as scuzzy as she was letting on it might be with PYWIP, wish it rocked harder, but it's one of her best!

this is too clean to sound super 70s

tracks 9-11 not AM for anyone else?

so far it sounds like a step up from Masseduction. Many songs are more organic and the psychedelic Steely Dan meets Electric Ladyland style tunneled through the lens of her self-titled (my favorite St. Vincent album) works as a colorful sound. However, I don't know if the songs themselves have enough creative ingredients to make them really stand out. Like I said, a step up from the last album but I don't know by how much yet.

Then again, I liked Masseduction at first but didn't want to return to it after a few listens.

Album is dope af.

Album of the Year from my point of view...

It's really that good from 1st listen

I'm saving this for tonight to listen to again, gonna bump Cole and this Paris Texas during the day then I'm getting zooted tonight and running this back cuz imo this the real treat of what dropped yesterday

I love the direction shes gone in here, so rich and I love the old-school influences. also this is a wonderful album to get stoned to

bout to go cop the vinyl at my record store

This album might honestly be my favorite of her’s.

So many of these songs straight up sound like they’re from Actor/Strange Mercy era put through a 70s filter.

Also this has to to at the very least be her most intricately composed album since then.

She went all out on the o*****ic chord progressions on this thing, and goddamn her voice is the best it’s ever been.

The sequencing is impeccable too, singles in the perfect place and a plethora of highlights outside of them too.

This is still 100% a St. Vincent record, and even with Antoff producing it manages to not sound overproduced (I’m assuming due their choice of sticking to actual 70s era equipment).

didnt know of her albums till today.

Start with new one or?

Melting of the sun

Jesus I need to find the time to listen to this

I'd say in this order - s/t, Strange Mercy, Actor

s/t is very energising and the record is just like 'electric', just about anyone would enjoy it. SM feature some of her best songs she's in top form there. Actor is nascent form where the St. Vincent as brand/identity she came to be now hasn't really developed, it my personal favorite though. Then you start with this latest one

Reason is cus I think it's better to grasp what kind of artist she's like. She's very eclectic and also very very talented. Also getting to understand why folks have a particular expectation of this latest album cus she's evolving here

Dont ask me abt Masseduction, debut and the collab project though. Let's just say I simply haven't heard em enough hahh

First time I've felt kinda...bored listening to Annie? I definitely hear some cross pollination between Antonoff and his most recent album with Lana, which I didn't really like.

Granted, I f***ing loved Masseduction and that album is miles away from this one in style. I loved how manic depressive and lyrically vulnerable that album was. It was sleek and sexy but also a shambling wreck.

Daddy's Home is a lot more together, it has a very clear aesthetic that it follows through on, but it also becomes background music for me at times. Gonna have to spend more time with it.