St. Vincent graces PIG
November 13, 2007
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Italian fashion + culture magazine PIG is running a cover story this month on our most beloved Saint. The interview, as you would imagine, is printed entirely in Italian, but having spent the breadth of my formative years as a scruffy, apple-cheeked youth trotting about the thin alleys of Napoli, I’ve taken it upon myself — with a minor amount of aid from Babelfish — to translate the introduction to the article for all you non-Italiano speakers. I am, after all, near-fluent in the language (although I’m sure there is some evidence of rust).
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“In cover St. Vincent, interviewed from Depolique and photographed from David Ledoux: It comes to ask itself where it was hidden until today a talent of the sort, what made camouflaged between the thousand uniforms of the Polyphonic Spree or “relegated” the role of turnista chitarrista, if also beside Glen Branch or to those geniaccio of Sufjan Stevens. To single ventitre Annie years Clark, stage name St. Vincent, been born in Oklahoma, grown in Texas and transplanted to New York City, is proposed with its first enormous album, “Marry Me“, like one of the artists more amazing Americans, originates them and complete in circulation. We could define it folk singer postmodern the widest horizons, but it would not be enough to give back the complexity of its music or its personage. Not there are doubts: “E’ she it girl”.
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More about PIG Magazine and the interview with St. Vincent can be read here. And I’d also like to extend a longing wave to my paesans Paolo and Manfredo.
BONUS:
St. Vincent: Your Lips are Red (live at the Modern Art Museum in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX / 10.19.07) / MP3 (thanks to Lullabyes.net) / $$$
