5/13 St. Vincent - Year of the Tiger + Severed Crossed Fingers @ The National, Richmond, VA 6/03/15

It starts with the creation myth: St. Vincent, naked and alone in the wilderness, startled as the ominous rattle of a snake breaks the silence of her Eden. She realizes she’s not alone in the world and breaks into a run, headed towards the uncertainty of the future. It’s a lovely and appropriate metaphor to open St. Vincent’s self-titled fourth album, except that it literally happened. “It’s not a metaphor at all,“ St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, says of the album’s lead track, “Rattlesnake.“ While visiting