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.”
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The Polyphonic Spree have released a trippy new video for “She’s A Rainbow” by The Rolling Stones, featured on their new covers album ‘Afflatus,’ adding choral vocals, broad instrumentation, and a psychedelic sound to the original tune. Featuring psychedelic, acid-soaked animation and in-studio footage that echoes the cover’s trippy sound, the video was captured during the one-night live recording session of ‘Afflatus,’ just before the 2020 lockdown. “We knew it was probably going to be the last time we saw each other for a long time,” reminisces frontman Tim DeLaughter, “and the next day, everything started to close.”
The rendition, recently released on the Polyphonic Spree’s latest album,
Afflatus, finds the band building upon the original tune with choral vocals, broader instrumentation and a psychedelic sound. Twenty different musicians contributed to the track, playing everything from guitar and drums to cello and French horn.
The accompanying music video echoes the cover’s trippy vibe, as a colorful kaleidoscope of colors follows the Polyphonic Spree while they rehearse. You can watch the band’s music video for “She’s a Rainbow” below.
By covering the Stones, frontman Tim DeLaughter was able to continue a journey he originally began as a teenager. “I was a freshman in high school. Me and another kid, Kevin Swanson, had a band, and all we played were Stones songs,” he tells UCR. “We were set to play the talent show, and ‘Jumpin Jack Flash’ was the song. On the day of the show, report cards came out, and Kevin was failing some classes. As a result, his folks - real