Actor Out of Work, St. Vincent

Actor is kind of a concept album about a bitter relationship with a waster who (implicitly) commits domestic abuse (you're a boxer in the ring/with brass knuckles underneath). Yet the paradox is that St. Vincent still loves this man no matter how much he hurts her.

The song is filled with some wonderful lines such as "You're the curses in my teeth/You're the laughter, the obscene." It's the constant push and pull between the damaging effect of this man and how Vincent is laughingly mocking him - versus the ambiguity in the word laughter - is she laughing with him or at him? All of this tension is set to some crazy music, some really effective guitar work and the drums just pound away being very high in the mix whilst her voice just floats over it all quite angelically. It's hard not to fall in love.