On Marry Me, St. Vincent’s Beggars Banquet debut, we see a smartly crafted deluge of guitar, bass, and beats pulsing forward with warmth and immediacy alongside Annie’s classy soprano. Her lyrics can be weird or tongue-in-cheek or dead serious, capturing verily what it feels like to be 24 years old in America and caught up in the delirium of love blues and wartime blues and the various swashbuckling adventures of existence. Horns and strings cry out brassy and full-bodied over digital keyboards. Songs rock out vigorously, break down into squiggling post-noise-rock deconstructions, roll out mellow and slow-flowing as a river. Backing harmonies and kiddie choirs loom in the distance, rise, and lilt above the stately grandiosity.

“An extravagant collection of songs that show off everything at once: her warm and versatile voice, her nimble and precise finger-picking, her love of old-fashioned torch songs and new-fangled electronics”
-THE NEW YORK TIMES

“With a debut this self-assured, Clark has moved squarely from the background to the spotlight”
-HARP

“As her St. Vincent debut immediately asserts, Clark's more than ready to be out front. In fact, it's amazing she didn't step into the spotlight sooner, considering the countless ideas swirling about Marry Me, an art-rock album at times redolent of prime Kate Bush and Lodger-era David Bowie”
-PITCHFORK, 8.0

“This saint is worthy of her own cult following”
“Annie Clark sorts through genres and instruments with equal skill on her debut, which teems with quirky indie-pop confessions.”
-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, B+

“A unique gem of artistic expression”
“It’s filled with delicated orchestration, winsome instrumentation and the kind of sweeping fancy that makes you think Paris, France, not Paris, Texas.”
-PASTE

“Elegantly crafted and darkly mischievous.”
-MAGNET

“Marry Me, seduces with one hand and stabs with the other.”
-THE ONION

“Marry Me is fanciful, sophisticated indie rock, piled high with intricate arrangements and Clark’s clarion coo, giving equal time to torchy piano ballads and inspired guitar leads.”
-SPIN

“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.”
-THE BOSTON GLOBE

“It's an orchestral record for those who prefer the simplistic, a darker one for those who prefer theirs twee, love songs for the scorned and sad songs for the content, an engaging and alluring combination that makes Marry Me nearly irresistible, and one of the better indie pop albums that's come around for a long time.”
-ALL MUSIC GUIDE