St. Vincent has announced a new album, a reimagining, piano-based version of last year’s MASSEDUCTION. This one’s called MassEducation, and it’s out October 12 via Loma Vista.
Recorded live in the studio over two nights in August 2017 while at Electric Lady mixing MASSEDUCTION, MassEducation lays bare the exquisite songcraft of its other half. Performed entirely by Annie Clark on vocals and Thomas Bartlett on piano, the new album renders songs like “Young Lover” and “Fear The Future” and their subjects in vivid, vulnerable new light. Clark herself describes the album as “two dear friends playing songs together with the kind of secret understanding one can only get through endless nights in New York City.”
Check out the piano version of “Savior” below.
You can check the track listing and artwork for MassEducation below:
Slow Disco
Savior
Masseduction
Sugarboy
Fear The Future
Smoking Section
Los Ageless
New York
Young Lover
Happy Birthday, Johnny
Pills
Hang On Me
St. Vincent and her band—Toko Yasuda (bass, background vocals), Daniel Mintseris (keyboard) and Matt Johnson (drums)—will reconvene for a run of full-band shows beginning with an October 5 late night headline show ringing in this year’s Austin City Limits Festival’s opening weekend (full dates below).
10/05/18 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
10/06/18 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
10/14/18 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
10/19/18 – Guadalajara, MX – Tecate Coordenada
10/20/18 – Monterrey, MX – Tecate Live Out
10/29/18 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium