Masseduction

by St. Vincent

Masseduction cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 October 2017
  • Label: Loma Vista
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:36
  • Community rating: 3.11/5 from 16 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

St. Vincent's 'Masseduction' is a work of futuristic art-pop and glam rock, notable for its blend of distinctive guitar work, synthesizers, and purposeful drum beats shaped by the co-production of Annie Clark and Jack Antonoff. The album's lyrical themes explore power, sex, sadness, and relationships from a deeply personal, first-person perspective, moving between witty observations and raw emotional exposure. Critically acclaimed as a masterwork, the album garnered multiple Grammy Awards and became her first top-ten record in the United States, solidifying its place as a definitive statement of the 2010s.

Genres

Descriptors: electronic, deconstructed, distorted, synth, percussive

Tracklist

  1. Hang On Me (02:48)
  2. Pills (04:40)
  3. Masseduction (03:17)
  4. Sugarboy (04:01)
  5. Los Ageless (04:41)
  6. Happy Birthday, Johnny (02:58)
  7. Savior (03:26)
  8. New York (02:34)
  9. Fear The Future (02:31)
  10. Young Lover (03:33)
  11. Dancing With A Ghost (00:46)
  12. Slow Disco (02:44)
  13. Smoking Section (03:37)

Credits

  • St. Vincent - primary artist
  • Lars Stalfors - co-producer
  • Laura Sisk - engineer
  • Chris Gehringer - mastered by
  • Catherine Marks - mixed by
  • Tom Elmhirst - mixed by
  • Jenny Lewis - performer
  • Kamasi Washington - performer
  • Jack Antonoff - producer
  • John Congleton - producer [additional]
  • Annie Clark - vocals, written-by, producer

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