Black hole's and Barracuda

St. Vincent is the stage name of Annie Clark.
Actor is her second album.

Women in rock music is a strange thing.
The only good female rock band Is "Heart".

Back then rock music was made from flaming spirits and steel-plated gold balls.

A rock guitar is a switch blade. A rock guitar should pull a grown mans long hair into the air with its shock waves of sheer bloody awesomeness. A rock guitar should make my hands wave back and forth, like they have lit illegal out of state cherry bombs in them. A rock guitar is the drunken fist fight in your best friends favorite dive bar. A rock guitar is an inmates bloody grasp on the barb wire as he climes the prison wall to American freedom.

How dare St. Vincent use the rock guitar as a brush to paint my iron clad heart with loneliness, despair, weird feelings of regret and a huge chunk of the unforgiving unknown.

In Hearts "Barracuda", we are reminded of good times:

"You're lying so low in the weeds
I bet you're gonna ambush me
You'd have me down, down, down, down on my knees
Now wouldn't you, barracuda?"

Heart understands that rock fans, or shall we say "Barracuda's", would do just that.

However, in St. Vincent's "The Strangers", she is once more a Robert "Downer" JR:

"Desperate don't look good on you,
neither does your virtue
Paint the black hole blacker
Paint the black hole blacker."

This album reminds me just how bad I feel for todays youth. As rock music no longer leads us to the leather boots of the Duke, John Wayne in hell, but to the funny round glasses of John Lennon in a strange poetic purgatory.

Actor - St. Vincent

Album Review 1

Most of us like sunsets and beaches and vacations. A sunset on a beach during a vacation (what the English call holidays) is like all of those great things put together. Good music is like a sunset on a beach during a vacation. Music lets us escape are sick, sad and mostly boring life’s. It creates a delusion that a mostly harmless self-aware being living in mostly frightful, cold and dark chaotic cosmos has some sort of meaning or at very least importance. Scientifically compared the amount of zilch that occupies the universe we are zilch. What is this author talking about? Well the fact these rhythmic patterns can create a lie as sweet as music is amazing. I dig this delusion of the sunset on a beach during vacation the music provides.



Then there are those Artists that take you beyond this. They take you by the hand and lead you in to the breaking waves. The water is about waist deep, the tide is coming in, the orange sky will soon be pitch black and your not that a good swimming. Those Artists with strong grip on not only what is good but "will" be good. There are some of us that wont like this "new" and there is no fault there. Not every current is for every Man and Woman. Those that do get "swept" away are going in to waters like though's of Radio Head, Nirvana, Joy Division, Sex Pistils, Black Sabbath, Velvet Underground, and Chuck Berry. Those bands that where on the for front on some thing new.

In January 20, 2009 The Album “Merriweather Post Pavilion” from the band “Animal Collective” came out.



It may not be first of kind, or I am that applying going to bring people in this alt alt rock music scene. This album is tho sort of a flagship of what could come of music, though it just might disappear in to the deadly waters witch it came.


Just dip your toes in................