St. Vincent w. Noveller
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Doors: 7p Show: 8p
Tabernacle ::: Atlanta, Ga
The night began with a Brooklyn composer and guitarist mesmerizing the
crowd with amazing axe work. Sarah Lipstate aka Noveller took the stage in a
white dress with dark pantyhose outlining her long legs. The electric guitarist
wielding solo-project dazzled with her dream guitaring and her command of it. She
amped up the crowd for what was building towards, an astounding performance from
another strong woman. Noveller made her guitar road with the static sound from
a mythical land, akin to Explosions in the Sky, but from a single guitar and
paddle board. Shortly after graduating high school and leaving for college she
felt compelled to learn the guitar.
That compelling feeling lead to a strong
understanding she shared with the Tabernacle crowd, using a violin bow to willing
her instrument in to submission. What she produced was a sound that resonated
through the layers of the venue, though her sound is made for outdoor venues/festivals.
She left the stage around 8:45p and but her presence left its mark.
In our latest album
review
we discussed many aspects of St. Vincent, on being that she’d hold her own in a
discussion for the women of indie music. After seeing he live, she’d be more appropriate
to adorn the Statue of Liberty as the first woman you see coming to the land of
indie music. Annie took the stage around 9:25p, a little long on the
intermission between artists considering seemingly no alterations were made,
and the anticipation had built to summit she more than conquered.
Taking the stage as an overhead robotic voice announced to refrain from
digital recordings of the performance, no doubt a strong wink and nod to her
second song ‘Digital Witness’. Post-godly voice St. Vincent and her three disciples,
one on bass/synth, piano, and percussions, took flight into ‘Rattlesnake’. After
her dance with the serpent the group blasted into the song that her tour takes
it’s name ‘Digital Witness’. It is this song in which you’re welcomed into the
incredible guitar world she’s created as she almost smugly shreds it as if it
is no big deal. Cruel, arguably her most popular song, got an appropriate roar
as her silvery voice filled the former church.
Emotions filled the halls with her passionate ‘I Prefer Your Love’ as
she laid across her massive steps/throne belting the song she wrote for her
mother as she was ill. ‘Surgeon’ of her 2011
Strange Mercy oddly enough showcased her amazing fingers along
guitar strings….hair blown back by her riffing. Through the entire show, slow
song, fast-paced, vocal driven or instrumental guided she held the crowd by the
collar.
One of the best aspects of the show was the lighting, somewhat simple, well
placed multi-layered strobe lights displayed at the right time to give the
robot movement to Annie and her crew. After a short breather St. Vincent
returned to the stage, to the chants of “ANNIE, ANNIE, ANNIE…” with a three
song encore that was worth the price of admission. Throughout the show it was apparent
that the ‘robot/digital’ theme was a big piece even more so when Annie and the
bassist would break into synchronized machinelike movements with amazing C-3PO-like
shuttle steps to and from the mic.
If you get the chance, and unless you’re in the wake of her east coast
leg you’ll have the opportunity, check out St. Vincent whether locally or at
Bonnaroo….just do it and thank us later.
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