All Born Screaming
Self-produced, industrial-tinged art rock that trades retro personas for raw, explosive intensity and modular synth-driven grooves.
Self-produced, industrial-tinged art rock that trades retro personas for raw, explosive intensity and modular synth-driven grooves.
Self-produced reclamation
Thick, distorted basslines and jagged modular synths hit like a sudden fever. You are pulled into a dark, sweat-slicked room where industrial beats grind against raw, blistering guitars. It feels urgent and unmasked, trading past theatrical personas for a heavy, self-produced heat that rattles your chest with every pulse.
Rather than hiding behind clever artifice, this record confronts death mortality with a startling, bone-deep directness that strips away all theatrical distance.
Critics warmly received the album as a deeply authentic and raw evolution, praising the way its self-produced tracks balance a heavy, visceral sonic landscape with moments of profound vulnerability. This contrast between intense instrumentation and tender, hopeful songwriting was widely admired for showcasing an artist embracing her most direct and creative expression yet.
“Recreating the noises in her head, Annie Clark’s first fully self-produced album ranges across styles and emotions, and is her most direct yet”Read review
“On All Born Screaming, Clark sounds more at home than she has in a while, but all planets inevitably die — perhaps the next one she lands on will finally be her own”Read review
“It’s music that evokes the terror we all share in just being alive, and the way that fighting through it is a form of constant rebirth we all share, too. That’s the kind of truth this album excavates and celebrates many times, and why this is some of Annie Clark’s most satisfyingly urgent music yet”Read review
“On All Born Screaming, St. Vincent suggests the end of life is really just a new beginning. Love is the purpose. There is no joy without pain”Read review
“Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album goes for a hard reset on the St. Vincent project. She retains her sharp edge as a songwriter while making the music sound exalting, inspiring, and thoroughly romantic”Read review
“With album seven, Annie Clark has peeled away the layers of artifice to reveal her most unique identity yet: herself”Read review
“Annie Clark has made a restless, mercurial, kaleidoscopic record that will really alienate some yet completely bewitch the rest”Read review
“This is the sound of releasing a lifetime’s worth of strife and unease. That sounds, it turns out, is pretty damn excellent”Read review
“All Born Screaming thrills for its directness, its momentum, and, crucially, its replayability. God rest St. Vincent. Long live Annie Clark”Read review
“Annie Clark’s self-produced seventh album is smart, cohesive and refreshingly tight”Read review
“The iconic, chameleonic rocker’s course-correcting seventh solo album is as harrowing as it is hopeful—and her heaviest yet”Read review
“Clark has more than earned the freedom she gives herself to express so many different sides to her music, and it’s a thrill to hear her stretch out on these ferocious, heartbroken, and ultimately life-affirming songs”Read review
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