Live Music Review: St Vincent, Olympia, Dublin

Extreme times call for extreme pop stars and Annie Clark fits the bill perfectly. After four progressively more audacious albums as St Vincent, her latest, Masseduction, may be her masterpiece — and the first great record of the Age of Trump. 

A tumultuous mash-up of Prince, Bowie, Talking Heads, Kraftwerk and Beck, it confirms 35-year-old Clark as the era’s outstanding pop enigma — and the musician best placed to re-contextualise upheavals, political and otherwise, as accessible yet serious art.

An album this uncompromising deserves more than a conventional rock concert — and, on the latest leg of her European tour, Clark delivered just the sort of risk-taking tour de force that was required.