Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic St. Vincent has done some fairly high-concept tours over the last decade.
Going out in support of 2017’s “Masseduction” album, on her synth-pop-glorifying “Fear the Future Tour,” she put pop-art video projections on the big screen, obfuscating masks on her band members, and a lot of latex in the dressing room, to magnify her candy-colored dominatrix look.
Conversely, on the tour behind 2021’s “Daddy’s Home,” she combined artifice with actual warmth, letting retro touches push some of the avant-garde flourishes aside.
There, she went blond and led a team of backup singers through an old-school soul revue laced with touches of psychedelia. Her m.o.
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