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St. Vincent’s after-school listening sessions at White Rock Lake inspire parts of new album
On ‘Daddy’s Home,’ the Dallas-raised artist looks back at her formative years and the music she always comes back to.
St. Vincent s new album, Daddy s Home, comes out May 14.
As a student at Lake Highlands High School in the late ’90s, Annie Clark had some eclectic tastes in music. Known across the globe these days as style-hopping, genre-bending musician St. Vincent, Clark and her circle of friends shared an after-school routine the Grammy winner remembers more than 20 years later.
“My friend Holly had a 1988 Ford Tempo with a bunch of hail damage,” Clark says over the phone from her home in Los Angeles. “We’d pile in that sucker and drive to White Rock Lake and someone would pretend to smoke a cigarette, maybe we’d drink a Keystone Light that someone had stolen from their parents’ refrigerator and we’d all listen to Pink Floyd.”