Released: 2024
Genres: Art Rock, Industrial Rock
The Musiquarium’s All Born Screaming Review Score: 8 out of 10
Annie Clark reinvents herself again, this time with her darkest and moodiest music yet. There’s Nine Inch Nails-like industrial touches all over the album (albeit far less abrasive, depressing and nihilistic), especially on the singles Broken Man and Big Time Nothing, the latter of which is reminiscent of U2’s 1993 track Numb. Then there’s Violent Times, which sounds like it could have been a James Bond theme song.
Two of the Foo Fighters show up here (Dave Grohl and their new drummer Josh Freese), lending their talents to the album’s hard rock sound. The first half of the album definitely has a harder edge and features all the singles, whereas the back half is a bit more in line with Clark’s infatuation with Talking Heads-like art rock (after all, she did a collaboration album with David Byrne in 2012).
The second half of All Born Screaming is slightly weaker than the first half and mostly seems to abandon a lot of the industrial influence, but the overall project is still quite good and sits comfortably in the the company of St. Vincent’s other albums.
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Written by Brett Nippard
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