Songs of the Holygrams: New Hotness: St. Vincent

To be born again...

...sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again...' Just before dawn one winter's morning, New Year's Day or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, towards the English Channel, without benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky. 'I tell you, you must die, I tell you, I tell you,' and thusly and so beneath a moon of alabaster until a loud cry crossed the night, 'To the devil with your tunes,' the words hanging crystalline in the iced white night, 'in the movies you only mimed to playback singers, so spare me these infernal noises now.'

--Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Saturday, September 15, 2007

New Hotness: St. Vincent

I hadn't heard of St. Vincent before downloading a few tracks off of their new album MARRY ME. Generally, I'm not the biggest fan of this kind of light, Rilo Keilyish/Feistish airy indie-pop. However, something about lead singer Annie Clarke's vocals just works for me, and I dig it. Plus she's cute and plays guitar. Peep this vid: