17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
St Vincent live at Somerset House review: absurdity returns in full force
Annie Clark, has been touring her most recent record All Born Screaming since its release back in April last year, but skipped a run of London dates in favour of a one-off show at Royal Albert Hall. Though she brought intensity and some of her heaviest guitar lines to date to the prestigious concert venue, she largely eschewed the eccentricity and theatricality that has come to define her live shows in favour of something much more straightforward. For most artists, rattling through the hits would be nothing unexpected; but from St Vincent - an artist who once toured 2017's new wave record MASSEDUCTION as a lone absurdist figure playing guitar in front of a closed theatre curtain - sticking to convention isn't how she usually plays things.
