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When the guitar objects: St. Vincent’s ‘Actor’

When the guitar objects: St. Vincent’s ‘Actor’
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Every great second album answers a different question than the first. Actor doesn’t ask whether Annie Clark can write beautiful songs. She’d already settled that on Marry Me. It asks whether beauty can survive distortion, whether a carefully composed performance can reveal more truth than simple...

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