On this album, she introduces a more orchestral sound that creates another layer of intensity next to her electric guitar, resulting in a modern-day Fantasia soundtrack. “ Actor came from me watching a lot of Disney movies and trying to rescore my favorite scenes,” says Clark. On the album, her preference towards darker sounds and lyrics became more evident, though the album’s starting place wouldn’t point that direction. In 2009, she released her second record, Actor, where the current of emotions often rises and falls with severe guitar notes.
In the title track, she sings, “Marry me John, I’ll be so good to you.” That lyric is later countered by, “You won’t realize I’m gone.” This album could easily be the soundtrack to a European romance film, as it’s her most direct and lacks what has become her signature, distorting sounds and emotions while synching quirky melodies with intimidating guitar riffs Her vocals and melodies are upbeat, while the lyrics are suggestively somber. Though recorded on computer, her instrumentation was largely conventional, relying on the piano, strings and background hand claps. “A lot of that album was written in my childhood bedroom on a laptop, recording myself,” Clark says. In 2007, she released her first solo album, Marry Me, under the name St. Playing in other people’s bands, you learn when to play and when not to play, and when to shut up and when to let things breath for themselves.” “Polyphonic Spree was like a crazy-ass trip, rock circus,” she says. Vincent, Clark was a member of the Dallas-based symphonic pop rock band, Polyphonic Spree, and later part of Sufjan Stevens’ touring band. Vincent and her current album, Strange Mercy.īorn in ’82, Clark was raised in Texas. Vincent-slyly dismisses a question about her time with the Polyphonic Spree, preferring to talk instead about St.
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