“Oh what an ordinary day / Take out the garbage, masturbate,” begins St. Vincent‘s brilliant new track, “Birth in Reverse.” In her typical fashion, St. Vincent (the moniker for multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Annie Clark) manages to entice and electrify with this preview to her upcoming album, St. Vincent, due Feb. 25th.
The song is spastic yet mechanical with its fast-paced pulse and gritty guitar. The first few seconds bring a car junkyard to mind—robotic and metallic—but the song builds up with a kind of anxious energy. It’s confident, almost boastful, and a perfect way to tease Clark’s anticipated fourth album (her first solo album since 2011, following 2012’s collaborative album Love This Giant with David Byrne).
Listen to “Birth in Reverse” here:
And check out the teaser for St. Vincent’s European tour which features a snippet of another similarly crunchy song, presumably one of the other ten tracks on the upcoming record.
