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It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for Nick Courtright’s weekly first glance at just-discovered music, whether it be just-released, just-leaked, or some long-lost gem that has remained under the radar. Click here for other recent editions of Hot Off the Press, featuring acts such as Animal Collective, Deerhunter, TV on the Radio, M. Ward, White Denim, and Grizzly Bear.

to be released May 5 on 4AD
Report Card: A-
Annie Clark’s beginnings in the flocks of Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens hardly made her transformation to big stage rockstar thrashabout a foregone conclusion. And it’s a strange thing that in a year of ridiculously hyped releases—from Animal Collective to Grizzly Bear, and now Dirty Projectors—that the frequently-adored Clark would come out of comparative nowhere with the quite-good Actor, an album sufficiently superior to its precursor that positions St. Vincent as an unlikely force to be reckoned with. Yet this, as we well know, is a world capable of defying expectations.
Video for "Jesus Saves, I Spend" by St. Vincent, off her 2007 release Marry Me (Beggars). St. Vincent's playing this year's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin this November, presented by Transmission. Get your tickets here.
Live in Brooklyn. St Vincent's Marry Me comes out on Beggars Banquet, July 10th.