Looks like my typical Thursday afternoon.

You are probably not immune to Annie Clark's powers, so don't try to fight it. That's essentially what I was aiming to say here, but the Globe generally frowns upon writing things like "Go see St. Vincent now, or I'll come to your house and make you go!" So I had to write this instead:

It's no surprise that Annie Clark, the slender, Oklahoma-bred curly-haired beauty behind St. Vincent, sounds like the female version of Sufjan Stevens. She has played with Stevens, as well as the Polyphonic Spree, everyone's favorite choir-robed purveyors of uplifting pop. The surprise is that, as a solo artist, St. Vincent creates anything but lo-fi indie pop. Instead, she combines simultaneously sweet sentiment and boldly experimental instrumentation. ''Now Now,'' for example, from her upcoming debut, ''Marry Me,'' is a shifting fusion of music-box-like tinkling and whispery, call-and-response vocals that dissolve into screeching guitar distortion. Beggars Banquet will release ''Marry Me'' on July 10, but you can catch a preview tomorrow night, when St. Vincent opens for John Vanderslice at the Middle East Upstairs.

St. Vincent, "Now. Now."

 

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