Texan-born, New York-based Annie Clark toys with imagery, dives into life terrors and pores over relationships falling apart. In a country, if not a world, ruled by fear – of the unknown, the other, the future – she embraces it and reshapes it. In this interview, which originally appeared in The Neighbourhood Paper, she explains why her current tour and album as St Vincent is about reclaiming what scares us most. Fear rules. Fear explains. Fear predicts. Throughout Masseducti

With a one-off show at Carriageworks just announced, which will feature songs from an album I had in my top 10 of 2017, Massseduction (read that review HERE), and a reputation for brilliance - on guitar, on disc and in her conceptualising of music-as-art – St Vincent is the talk of the town right now. Wind Back Wednesday takes a short step back to 2014 and the artist also known as Annie Clark discussing whether truth is over-rated and identity misunderstood. FOR MANY OF US, t

ST VINCENT Masseduction (Caroline) Masseduction begins with a small movie, maybe German, definitely low budget and probably based on a two-hander play. It compels and defines and unsettles. This film is a psychological exercise filmed in clear detail, twin screen. In one a body is beneath the sheet, obscured, the phone’s light visible. In the next screen there’s tense upright body, face smudged by lack of sleep and excess of alcohol. And it’s shot always in mid-distance so yo