St. Vincent (Annie Clark)

Like I said, it's a frequency you can kind of tune into.

When life takes you there, but art luckily is a safe place to explore all emotions, all ideas, no matter how dark or complicated.

You know, sometimes it really is as well.

That's just sings better.

It sings better.

And it makes me feel a certain kind of way.

And and so therefore, that's what it should be.

Oh, Terry, that's a combination of my guitar completely blown out and then also just white noise going psss, psss.

Yeah, I look at music sort of like architecture, you know, and call and response and tension and release.

That's the whole game, right, in music is tension and release.

So you get these little just explosions of release and then it goes back to tension and then an explosion of release and then tension.

But it's this simmering, creeping tension.

Creeping dread, I guess.

On this record, I swear, some moments are almost like horror movie jump scares.

Like, I think that chord is like a jump scare.

I was in my best friend Doug's front yard.

He and his brother Paul had built a half pipe.

We were learning how to skateboard.

And Paul, who always had cool taste in music, you know, who was like onto DC punk from an early age, was like, brought out the boombox, put in Nirvana Nevermind, and...

played it for us for the first time, and we were floored.