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1. Ex Hex: "Hot and Cold"
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Ex Hex: "Hot and Cold" Posted: 07 Feb 2014 02:16 PM PST   Loose, confident, and just a little sly, "Hot and Cold"—our first run-in with Ex Hex, a new band from Mary Timony, Fire Tapes bassist Betsy Wright, and the Aquarium drummer Laura Harris—hardly feels like your typical debut single. Stands to reason, really: Mary Timony, late of Autoclave, Helium, and Wild Flag, has launched a band or two in her day, and at this point, she seems keen to nix the fanfare and break out the fuzzboxes. The free-and-easy "Hot and Cold" doesn't exactly possess the shock of the new, but that doesn't matter: All it takes is one listen, and it already sounds like an old favorite. It's sheer glammed-out swagger, a feathered-hair-and-denim-jacketed stomper on the order of Sweet's "Fox on the Run". Over a strutting backbeat and a couple of chunky chords, Timony and a would-be suitor work through a communication breakdown: "You're acting like the foolish kind," she sneers, "Trying to talk to me through your mind." If "Hot and Cold" is any indication, Ex Hex might just prove to be the most out-and-out rocking outfit of Timony's career. Ex Hex: "Hot and Cold" on SoundCloud.

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St. Vincent Snorts Pieces of the Berlin Wall With 'Prince Johnny' Posted: 05 Feb 2014 11:25 AM PST With less than three weeks until St. Vincent releases her self-titled fourth album, the artist also known as Annie Clark has offered her third preview of the LP in the form of "Prince Johnny." With an electronic beat laid over a choir, Clark drowsily sings to the titular royal about "making him a real boy" and one particular odd way of getting high: "Remember when we snorted / The pieces of the Berlin Wall you extorted?" she asks...

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St. Vincent: "Birth in Reverse" Posted: 09 Dec 2013 09:05 AM PST Leave it to Annie Clark, forever if possible, to electrify the mundane. Over the past six years, the guitarist, who refers to her forthcoming self-titled fourth solo album as "A party record you could play at a funeral," has become a master of turning domestic images into vivid commentary—weird, militant licks into wild declarations of both complicity and rebellion. St. Vincent's first single, "Birth in Reverse", continues that tradition in vibrant, evolved color.