St Vincent debuts new song ‘LA’ live in Tokyo

St Vincent’s clearly heading full steam ahead towards her fifth record, and while on tour in Tokyo, she played a brand new song called ‘LA’ live.

A total banger of a break-up song (“I try to write you a love song but it comes out in a melt,” go some of the lyrics), it’s slated to appear on the follow-up to her 2014 self-titled release ‘St Vincent’. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Annie Clark confirmed a new album is definitely on the way, and also spoke about the personal subject matter of ‘LA’.

“I don’t love it when musicians speak about their records being ‘diaries’ or ‘therapy’,” she told journalist Tom Lamont. “It removes that level of deep instinct and imagination that is necessary in order to make something that transcends.” She pointed out the issues with pushing autobiographical interpretations onto female musicians, too, saying it can be “erroneously gendered, in the sense that the assumption from the culture at large is that women only know how to write things autobiographically, or diaristically, which is a sexist way of implying that they lack imagination.”

That said, she also added that “my whole life is in this record.”

Read our in depth guide to what to expect from St Vincent’s new album here, and watch her air ‘LA’ below.