10 Greatest Rock Music Guitar Solos Of The 2010s
6. Rattlesnake - St. Vincent
Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, has been providing the art rock world with some of the simultaneously nuttiest and catchiest tunes ever since her debut solo album in 2007. If David Byrne from Talking Heads think you’re strange, then you must be doing something right.
In 2014, Clark did that annoying thing where artists release a self-titled album that isn’t their debut, as her fourth record bore the name St. Vincent. Fans were in for a treat right from the very start, as the opening track on the record was the weird and wonderful Rattlesnake.
Using her usual trick of disguising a high-concept song as an upbeat pop-rock banger, St. Vincent wows on Rattlesnake, particularly when it comes to the outro, which is one big guitar solo.
Fragmented and fuzzy as all hell, the ending solo to Rattlesnake really shouldn’t work, but it fits perfectly with the rest of the song’s unhinged presentation and ends up serving as a perfect crescendo.
St. Vincent is a thoroughly underrated guitarist and is an icon for women everywhere who don’t want to play by the conventional rules of rock. In other words, she’s just really cool.