St. Vincent has translated her entire All Born Screaming album into Spanish, and the Spanish language Todos Nacen Gritando will be released November 15 via Total Pleasure Records in partnership with Virgin Music Group.
To celebrate the news, the artist born Annie Clark recently unveiled “Pulga,” the second single to preview the upcoming album.
Featuring St. Vincent on vocals and all instruments except drums and bass—handled respectively by Dave Grohl and Justin Meldal-Johnsen—“Pulga” features massive rhythmic grooves and scorching guitar melodies.
Check out “Pulga,” the new version of “Flea,” below.
The echoes of tens of thousands of fans chanting her lyrics across Latin America and Spain moved Annie Clark to pay tribute to her Spanish-speaking fans and the Spanish language she loves so much.
“It was really inspiring,” she says, recalling experiences like the crowd reaction to her set at Primavera Sound 2023. “At the end, I asked myself, ‘If they’re able to sing in a second or third language, why can’t I do the same thing?”
That is how Todos Nacen Gritando was born. Clark herself, who has recently honed her Spanish language skills, defines this meticulous reinterpretation as one of the biggest challenges of her musical career: “It’s been a much more complicated process than anything I’ve done before.”
She adds: “What surprises me is that music is not separated from life in Latin America. In the United States everything is commercialized, music is a commodity, an accessory. But in Latin America music is life itself, and you can feel that.” This reflection by Clark makes even more sense when life, death, loss and love were the main themes of the album All Born Screaming, lauded by critics for its emotional and musical rawness.
The stark nature of the album—her first fully self-produced record—found in Spanish a way to enhance its visceral original vocal performances. “There are things that I sing in Spanish that maybe I would feel self-conscious singing in English because they feel so sincere…it was a fascinating experience to find how to convey the feeling, but also discover a new way through words,” she explains.