St. Vincent - Daddy’s Home 4/5
Jerky cut up sophisticated electro-perv-pop ahoy! St. Vincent has produced the goods again. With every release she just gets that little bit sexier and ‘Daddy’s Home’ heats the libido up further.
Title track ‘Daddy’s Home’ has a gloriously sleazy, speakeasy feel to it, everything she’s worked up to this point has now been energized with a self-knowing sexuality that’s been cleverly draped over the music. It suits her.
In other depots, we have slow ballads of building beauty such as ‘Live In The Dream’ which owe a debt of gratitude to 70’s Pink Floyd albeit with much sexier pants on. Also the soulful aspects of her craft has been embraced, the 70’s inspired ‘The Melting of the Sun’ feels custom built for an AM radio on a blissful sticky day, listless limbs and cheap white wine but with a burning intelligence that belies the easy going nature of the song.
‘The Laughing Man’ extends this soulful lounge, it's as summery as a lazy swish of the foot in a slow moving lake, lace and snakebite. Days that leave lovebites on your neck.
‘Daddy’s Home’ is playful yet centred, it knows what you want and is showing all the parts you really want to see without going all the way, St. Vincent is a splendidly clever woman and continues to entice and invite us into her sensual and wonderfully weird world. Where she reigns eternally. God save this queen.