Music for Your Next Apple Commercial

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UPDATE: Go here to listen to a couple tunes from the new St. Vincent EP.

So, this will be my first in an on-going Saturday series, Music for Your Next Apple Commercial.  I’ll be featuring kickass up and coming, unsigned or at least non-major label bands that I love, and could be used in one of my company’s or maybe your company’s next campaign.

First, I wanted to start with someone that I simply can’t stop listening, too.  All I’ve heard is a few songs off an album she’s currently working on, and all I can say is, I’m floored.  It’s like hearing a song for the first time that just grabs a hold of you, and you just know it’s going to huge.

Enter Annie Clark, under the moniker of St. Vincent.  This is no understated mess, she’s going big, and it shows.  The music is oddly scattered, but in a good way. I don’t want to give the impression that it’s not cohesive, because it is.  It’s just that it heads in so many directions, all at the same time, that it creates these brilliant pictures in my head with every listen. 

She’s sort of like a Fiona Apple meets Ella Fitzgerald in a Broadway play. Her music just has a theatrical quality to it. She thunders through Paris is Burning, with dark horns, against a dark back drop.  It’s like a knife fight in a Kubrik film. Just crazy.  I love it.

All My Stars Aligned is just beautiful, with whimsical vocals, and flowing piano.  Decadent might be the perfect way to describe it. Marry Me John has a little more funk, and is a little more light-hearted. I really just can’t wait to hear what other tricks she’s got up her sleeve.  This album is sure to be a killer.

She also plays guitar in The Polyphonic Spree, the band that's made a name for itself for having 25+ of the happiest musicians of all time on stage at one time.  Annie is a recent addition, but look out for her to quickly surpass her bandmates in notoriety.  She's just too good.

St. Vincent Myspace
St. Vincent homepage
Interview with Annie

Lookout for Tuesday, with the first of another on-going series, Music For Your Next Ford Commercial, in which I'll feature big, over-produced shitty bands I hate.  It'll be fun!!