“Over the course of four albums, St. Vincent's Annie Clark has been focusing her vision and sharpening her music's edges. St. Vincent is in a sense the Platonic ideal of a St. Vincent record, executing with perfect poise everything we already know she can do.”
“Since she began making records in the early 2010s, Welsh-born, California-based Cate Le Bon has staked out her own unique avant-pop space, especially on excellent recent albums like 2019’s Reward and 2022’s Pompeii. Her warmly stentorian singing and dreamy lyrics can have a de-centering effect, so her music often gets called “surreal” or “dada” — one critic described it as “anti-mimetic.” But Le B”
