Production Breakdown: St. Vincent Unpacks Stems and Breaks Down "Sweetest Fruit" Pro Tools Session

Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, walks us through the Pro Tools session for "Sweetest Fruit", breaking down all the interlocking components of the track.
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[@antsteep]

I love this. Annie looks so happy just bugging out to her own beats

[@Jack_Rivet]

Right? I could watch that all day

[@Jack_Rivet]

It's great fun watching her just vibing on the separate parts of the track

[@christiankjrbl8397]

Can't help but wonder what would come out if you put St Vincent in a room with Trent Reznor. The potential seems enormous.

[@PazzoCalcio-xv4wm]

she just made an amazing album (her best) on her own so it’s quite misogynistic, sexist to say that she would need some dude.

[@christiankjrbl8397]

@@PazzoCalcio-xv4wm By that same lack of logic, I might as well indicate the Reznor needed her help.. You are projecting and its clearly not good for you.

[@crypticallegory]

@@PazzoCalcio-xv4wmya, quit yer bs… they’re both incredibly talented artists with tantalizingly compatible styles. Like her collaboration with David Byrne. I’d be very keen to hear the results.

[@adoneran]

I’d love to hear Annie’s response to this bs

[@onteraction8294]

She broke your heart with that guitar comment

[@lochfoot]

My favorite track of the new album! What a treat to hear some of those grooves shining on their own

[@violetgoesshopping]

I love her bopping her head and nerding out to it all. At 5.55 the split seconds of self-consciousness and seeing his reaction, after getting so excited and then checking herself and reigning it in. Loved seeing this breakdown and love Annie and her passion for art and music!

[@violetgoesshopping]

where she looks and him and then the camera aw, it's rare to see these moments when her presence is usually in her performance which is, well, performative haha

[@robertcarolinar]

Thank you for this interview, love seeing Annie share the layers of this song. ❤

[@FursAndMasksMusic]

That whole interaction was super cute. Love it

[@LB-yn2su]

ok i just felt in love with Annie

[@HenriqueCarvalhoCosta]

... again 😂

[@mcastromusic]

Tremendous! What a great podcast! Just subscribed. Thank you!

[@TapeNotesPodcast]

Welcome aboard!

[@sliverhandsonbasses]

JMJ is such a killer bassist!

[@acousticshred]

Does anyone have any idea what software/DAW she’s using to pull up the audio recordings (a few times it’s pushed to the full screen)? She’s literally my favorite, and one of the reasons for that is that I view her as the closest thing to Prince that we still have.

[@acousticshred]

I guess I’m just so not used to Pro Tools that I didn’t recognize her configuration.

[@JackCorbett-vo2zy]

So good

[@PrantoKoX]

She's brilliant. 👍🏻👍🏻 But... guys, EASY on the damn Tape it ads! Not even commercial television at its worst peaks of greed ran 2 same ads in not even 5min, FFS. We get it, this makes one just hate the product.

[@jazzocracyDJS]

I'm here for the remixes, DO IT ANNIE! (who cares about guitar 😆)

[@user-jy3io4iz2p]

That arpeggio at about 1 min in sounds like a DX7, I don't like DX7's. (FM).

[@spacekid5609]

Wich DAW is this?

[@wittkacy]

Pro Tools

[@oggitæpç]

🩶🪬✨🍓✨🪬🩶

[@HewittH]

I love how when she gets close to being cringe - y, she says something like, "yeah! The remix album nobody asked for."

[@oggitæpç]

shelahhf

[@robertopistolesi2735]

It seems to me: production going up, songs going down. Dear St. Vincent

[@oggitæpç]

whyyoulaff

[@Stubby23]

This dude is so lame!