St. Vincent & Yves Tumor at Brooklyn Paramount [Photos]

This week, St. Vincent & Yves Tumor played a commanding show together at the Paramount in Brooklyn, New York. Annie Clark, whose latest St. Vincent album All Born Screaming was a Paste Pick in April, played a 20-song, career-spanning set that covered everything from Strange Mercy to MASSEDUCTION. Yves Tumor, whose 2023 LP Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) landed on our year-end list and remains one of Sean Bowie’s greatest achievements, kicked the night off with an 11-track performance that included “Operator,” “Jackie” and “Echolalia.”

Earlier this year, Clark was profiled by Paste‘s music editor, Matt Mitchell, about the latest St. Vincent record. “The tapestry of All Born Screaming’s visual imagination, too, suggests that this is the most naked Clark has ever been on a record,” Mitchell wrote. “Even from the title, there is a very deeply embedded conversation around the pain that we’re born into—or, even, the grief that comes with rebirth, how we come into this world with no language. On tracks like ‘Flea,’ ‘Big Time Nothing’ and ‘Violent Times,’ there are sea-change tempests afoot. All at once, this era of St. Vincent sounds like the St. Vincent of old and the Annie Clark of now. These 10 songs catalyze a metamorphosis; out of the ashes of Daddy’s Home comes a pensive, egoless Clark—who is now walking into the fire, seeing what’s on the other side and trimming away the fat for the sake of a song’s survival. All Born Screaming is, at long last, a proper, career-spanning time capsule harboring the flourishes of her greatest eras. Lounge, noise rock, baroque, funk, chamber pop, electronica—it’s all here and orbiting each other.”

You can see pictures from St. Vincent and Yves Tumor’s sets at Brooklyn Paramount on September 11, taken by Emilio Herce, below.

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