St. Vincent Takes a Walk on the Wild Side on Her New Album Daddy s Home
Annie Clark, also known as St. Vincent, performs onstage
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Like David Bowie before her, Annie Clark, the innovative singer-songwriter-guitarist who goes by the stage name of St. Vincent (the moniker, she says, comes from a line in a Nick Cave song), has come up with alter egos tied to each of her albums. For 2011 s
Strange Mercy, she told
Billboard, she was a housewife on pills; for 2017 s Masseduction, she was a dominatrix at a mental institution. On her latest
Review: The late Chris Cornell shines on an album of covers
This cover image released by UMe shows No One Sings Like You Anymore by Chris Cornell. (UMe via AP)
Published December 23. 2020 6:59AM
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Chris Cornell, “No One Sings Like You Anymore (UMe)
No disrespect to Sinead O’Connor, but there s another version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” that might be even better than the one the Irish singer delivered. That would be the cover by Chris Cornell, which is ragged with heartbreak.
It s the highlight of “No One Sings Like You Anymore,” a batch of 10 covers that the leader of Soundgarden and Audioslave recorded in 2016, a year before his death. Included are tunes originally made famous by giants like Janis Joplin and John Lennon.
New Music Reviews (12/14) KEXP
Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what s coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from
The Avalanches,
We Will Always Love You (Astralwerks)
This Australian duo’s third album is an excellent set of buoyant, star-bound electronic grooves inflected with disco, house, funk, hip hop, soul, folk and much more, combining a wide range of samples with live instrumentation and an impressive lineup of guest vocalists ranging from Blood Orange, Leon Bridges and Perry Farrell to Denzel Curry, Tricky and Sampa the Great. DY