St. Vincent – Broken Man

Description

All Born Screaming is the upcoming seventh studio album by American musician St. Vincent, scheduled for release on April 26, 2024, through Total Pleasure Records and the Virgin Music Group.

Background and promotion

On February 16, 2024, the musician first spoke about the record, saying how she “needed to go deeper in finding [her] own sonic vocabulary” and likes to refer to the album as “post-plague pop”. All Born Screaming marks the first studio album entirely produced by Clark herself, alongside additional mixing by Cian Riordan. The record features contributions from several artists, including Dave Grohl, Cate Le Bon, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Josh Freese, Stella Mozgawa, Rachel Eckroth, Mark Guiliana, and David Ralicke of Dengue Fever. Trying to explain the sound of the album, Clark compared it to “taking the long walk into the woods alone” in order to find the messages of your heart. As a result, she opined that it “sounds real because it is real”.

Clark shared the lead single “Broken Man”, an “industrial menacing rock” piece, on February 29, 2024, along with a music video directed by Alex Da Corte. During the video, she bursts into flames, an image that is also depicted as the album artwork. A second single, “Flea”, was released on March 28, the same day the All Born Screaming Tour was officially announced.

The song “Sweetest Fruit” includes an ode to Sophie, a music producer whom Clark admired and who died in 2021, and is about “people trying for transcendence, and at least they were taking a big swing or trying for something beautiful”.

Track listing