St. Vincent to release new album

2011 is the year of follow up albums. There was brand new Sondre Lerche, Cake, and Bon Iver (to name a few) and Laura Marling Beirut, and Megafaun on the horizon, St. Vincent has announced the release of her follow up to 2009's Actor, Strange Mercy.


- Chloe in the Afternoon
- Cruel
- Cheerleader
- Surgeon
- Northern Lights
- Neutered Fruit
- Champagne Year
- Dilettante
- Hysterical Strength
- Year of the Tiger

The album will be release September 13th (alongside some of those other follow ups) and St. Vincent will be embarking on an extensive fall tour in support. Here are the dates:

8/25 Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, New York
10/2 McGuire Theater - Minneapolis, Minnesota
10/3 Pabst Theater - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
10/5 Metro - Chicago, Illinois
10/6 Old Rock House - St. Louis, Missouri
10/7 Liberty Hall - Lawrence, Kansas
10/8 Boulder Theater - Boulder, Colorado
10/10 Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, Utah
10/12 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
10/13 Neptune Theatre - Seattle, Washington
10/14 Crystal Ballroom - Portland, Oregon
10/18 Music Box - Los Angeles, California
10/20 Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, Arizona
10/23 Kessler Theater - Dallas, Texas
10/24 Moody Theater at ACL Live - Austin, Texas
10/25 Fitzgerald's - Houston, Texas
10/28 The EARL - Atlanta, Georgia
10/30 Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, Virginia
11/1 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
11/2 Union Transfer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11/3 Webster Hall - New York, New York
11/4 Royale - Boston, Massachusetts

And in an intriguing bit of promotion, if you have a twitter and tweet #strangemercy you'll get access to a song off the upcoming album.