On her seventh full-length studio album, Annie Clark, who performs as St. Vincent, unleashes her broad range of art-rock gifts, from the crackling ember of her vocals to raging infernos of swirling, epic orchestration, writes the Associated Press’ Jim Pollock. “All Born Screaming” is Clark’s first self-produced release, and she is the primary songwriter and musician throughout, playing multiple instruments on every track. “All Born Screaming” is the artist’s most accessible album to date, seamlessly spinning elements of acid-jazz, industrial grind, retro-futurism and heavy distortion. The result is a blend of searing intimacy and apocalyptic clamor that burns brightly from start to finish.
