St. Vincent

This is Fresh Air. I'm David Biancooley. Saint Vincent is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and a multi-Grammy award winner. Her guitar playing can be shredding, and her songs often can be dark, but her lyrics typically read like poetry. She's been making music as a solo artist for 17 years across seven albums.

New York Times music critic John Perellis described her as, quote, a grown up fascinated by personas, gender roles, connections, obligations, self destructive behavior, and looming mortality. In addition to her own albums, she co wrote the Taylor Swift song Cruel Summer and the Olivia Rodrigo song Obsessed, and recorded an album of duets with David Byrne. On her new album, Saint Vincent Live in London, she's backed by the 60-piece Jules Buckley Orchestra on stage at London's Royal Albert Hall. It was recorded last September. Let's listen to a track from it.

This is Los Angeles. In Los Ageless the winner never comes. In Los Ageless the mothers milk the young, but I can And keep running oh I can keep running aye Oh I the lowest ages hang out by the bar Burn the pages of unwritten memoirs but I can keep running oh I can keep running aye oh I How can anybody have you?

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