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St. Vincent visited Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show on Wednesday to carry out a canopy of Portishead’s 90s hit “Glory Box”. The cowl, carried out with home band The Roots, remained fairly devoted to the atmospheric authentic, save, in fact, 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 Deliver, which will probably be streamed reside from New York’s Beacon Theatre on March ninth at 8 p.m. EST.
The single, 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 reason to love you / Give me a reason to be a woman / I just wanna be a woman”. “Glory Box” was the third single off of Portishead’s 1994 breakout album Dummy, combining parts of hip-hop, jazz, indie, and electronica.
St. Vincent’s newest report, Daddy’s Home, got here out two years in the past, successful the Grammy for Best Alternative 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 side of the Britpop thing, it was just all this very narcotic music, like Portishead,” she explains. “Just this dark shit. It was really, really exciting.”
Without a brand new report to advertise, St. Vincent has opted for enjoying some cool covers, together with “Glory Box” and final 12 months’s efficiency of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” on The Late Show 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. “Working on new music with St. Vincent is so real deal f-ing wonderful I’m trying to not lose my mind too!” he wrote on an image of the 2 artists collectively.
In the interim, Annie Clark has been preserving busy together with her new music podcast sequence for Audible, History Listen: Rock, which premiered in January.
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