“Marrow” by St. Vincent

"Marrow" comes from Actor, the second St. Vincent album, which 4AD put out in May 2009, and she wrote it alone, words and music.

Actor had an unusual birth. She was steeped in the film scores of Disney and Woody Allen pictures, and to dodge writer's block she watched movies with the sound off and wrote music to fit the scenes she loved best, arranging it in GarageBand before adding lyrics and gentle vocal melodies. The sessions began with another producer and went badly wrong, so she called John Congleton, the first time they worked together, and re-recorded everything except the wind and string parts, afraid she was otherwise heading for something like the soundtrack to The Lion King. The Actor Tour then carried the songs across North America, Europe and Asia until December 2010.

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