St. Vincent shares "Pills" from new album
St. Vincent‘s highly anticipated new album MASSEDUCTION comes out this week (10/13) via Loma Vista, and she has just revealed “Pills,” perhaps the album’s craziest song, ahead of the release. This one is stacked with impressive guests, including sax by Kamasi Washington, backing vocals by Jenny Lewis and Cara Delevingne (going as “Kid Monkey”), programming by TDE’s Sounwave, several contributions from the album’s producer, Jack Antonoff, and more. The song’s first half is a bouncy, quirky, electronics-fueled jam with a hook that muses on our society’s tendencies to solve all of our problems with pills, and the second half is a slower, more human-sounding section that almost sounds like an entirely different song but somehow still works. Again, it’s a very crazy song. Listen below.
St. Vincent just played the Red Bull Music Academy in LA; check out photos from her set in the gallery above. Her tour includes two shows at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre in December (12/2 is sold out, 12/3 is on sale). She also added 2018 tour dates. Updated dates are listed below.
St. Vincent — 2017/2018 Tour Dates
10/17 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
10/18 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo Manchester
10/20 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia Theatre
10/23 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
10/24 – Paris, France – Le Trianon
10/26 – Berlin, Germany – Huxleys
10/27 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVrendenburg
11/14 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
11/15 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room
11/17 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
11/18 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theater
11/19 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
11/20 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
11/21 – Louisville, KY – The Kentucky Center
11/22 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
11/24 – Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre
11/25 – Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center
11/27 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
11/28 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
11/30 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
12/1 – Portland, ME – State Theatre
12/2 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre
12/3 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre
12/16-12/17 – Houston, TX – Day For Night Festival
1/9 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
1/10 – Columbus, OH – Express Live
1/12 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
1/13 – Omaha, NE – Kiewit Concert Hall at Holland Performing Arts Center
1/15 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
1/19 – Seattle, WA – The Moore Theatre
1/20 – Portland, OR – Keller Auditorium
1/22 – San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
1/25 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
1/26 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
1/27 – San Diego, CA – Observatory
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photos by Maria Jose Govea and Koury Angelo
