A Musical Chameleon Goes Retro

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ike DavidBowie before her, Annie Clark, the innovative singer-songwriter-guitarist who goes by the stage name of St. Vincent (the moniker, she says, comes from a line in a Nick Cave song), has come up with alter egos tied to each of her albums. For 2011’s , she told , she was a “housewife on pills;” for 2017’s Masseduction, she was a “dominatrix at a mental institution.” On her latest Daddy’s Home (due May 14), she’s gone back to the early 1970s as an Andy Warhol-esque character living in gritty and bohemian New York City, the kind of downtown scenester Lou Reed celebrated in “Walk