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St. Vincent visited Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Present on Wednesday to carry out a canopy of Portishead’s 90s hit “Glory Field”. The duvet, carried out with home band The Roots, remained fairly trustworthy to the atmospheric unique, save, after all, for St. Vincent’s distinctive vocal taste.
The Grammy-award-winning singer appeared on the present forward of her March ninth efficiency on the Love Rocks NYC profit for God’s Love We Ship, which will probably be streamed reside from New York’s Beacon Theatre on March ninth at 8 p.m. EST.
The one, initially launched in 1995, finds frontwoman Beth Gibbons reflecting on love and womanhood. St. Vincent packs her cowl with emotion, delivering haunting vocals as she sings the refrain, “Give me a motive to like you / Give me a motive to be a lady / I simply wanna be a lady”. “Glory Field” was the third single off of Portishead’s 1994 breakout album Dummy, combining components of hip-hop, jazz, indie, and electronica.
St. Vincent’s newest document, Daddy’s Residence, got here out two years in the past, successful the Grammy for Greatest Different Album. In a 2021 interview with Australia’s Double J, she mentioned the songs and artists that impressed the album, together with Portishead. “The late ’90s in England, after the sunny facet of the Britpop factor, it was simply all this very narcotic music, like Portishead,” she explains. “Simply this darkish shit. It was actually, actually thrilling.”
With out a new document to advertise, St. Vincent has opted for enjoying some cool covers, together with “Glory Field” and final 12 months’s efficiency of Fleetwood Mac’s “Desires” on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert. No date has been set for a brand new launch, however again in January, legendary musician Nile Rogers shared on Instagram that he was within the studio with St. Vincent. “Engaged on new music with St. Vincent is so actual deal f-ing fantastic I’m attempting to not lose my thoughts too!” he wrote on an image of the 2 artists collectively.
Within the interim, Annie Clark has been holding busy along with her new music podcast sequence for Audible, Historical past Pay attention: Rock, which premiered in January.
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