St. Vincent "The Strangers" live @ SXSW 2009

[automatavirex]

awesome! Thanks for posting this, I love her stuff.

[Supershooter9]

something wrong with the sound quality - can hardly hear what she's singing

[Bolinas1971]

something something something about egg on your face

[Supershooter9]

Can't say I've heard much of her music but I saw her live at latitude - trouble I found was that although there was plenty going on musically and it was all very clever if you stripped it down to the basics there quite often wasn't much of a song there. It was like she was hiding behind the band. Anyway it wasn't shit but it didn't impress me either. My chin is dry mate!

[Bolinas1971]

mmmm, sounds like an insightful and considered critique- one can't deny that her guitar instincts are good, and her signature cover of 'dig a pony' is o la momo.

[Supershooter9]

Actually I agree with you that the dig a pony cover was very good but @ Latitude I saw Camera Obscura not long after St. Vincent and they were much more my kinda band. In my opinion they were more focused with better structures to their songs - St. Vincent is kind of genre hopping and I lost interest after a bit. But yeah the guitar did rock in places! Like I said I haven't sat down and listened properly but that was my first impression.

[Supershooter9]

She's probably singing all my fans are muppets for liking this song! LOL

[geoffeg]

Damn, she can play a guitar and look awesome doing it. A great performer.

[milkcowmani]

I prefer Annie singing "Paint the black hole blacker" part. =/

[AwesomeconVideos]

I totally agree. She did use samples for other songs so I don't know why she didn't for this song.

[memoryburn7]

My exact response....I thought she'd have the double mic set-up like usual for that part. The time delay on the vocals is very trippy and cool though.