Back in 2017, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) was all edges. With her fifth album,
Masseduction, the intimidating yet playful indie darling became the dominatrix pop star sheâd always hinted lay within. Four years later, Clark has transformed again. âPay Your Way in Pain,â the first single off her upcoming album
Daddyâs Home, trades latex for the softer trappings of a â70s starlet: blonde bobbed wig, a suit that manages to be simultaneously slouchy and fitted, and a sleazy sensuality. The song is an overload of influences: a honky-tonkinâ opening piano line gives way to thrusting funk à la Prince, and itâs impossible not to hear Bowie lamenting fame circa