As you probably know, St. Vincent released an album this year called Daddy’s Home. Its lead single “Pay Your Way In Pain” is a raunchy, sweat-stained, and lipstick-smeared track about life’s ruggedness. Today, we get an alternate version of that track with a remix by UK post-punk outfit IDLES.
“What I really enjoy about the Daddy’s Home album is using this camp energy in a really violent way,” IDLES’s Mark Bowen said in a statement. “This embracing of the nostalgic even the kitsch but using it to make progressive futuristic music. It reminded me a lot of the energy of early house and techno but wrapped up in this early ’70s aesthetic. I wanted to ramp up the camp and the violence in the remix but still maintain the sentiments and sensibilities of the original track.”
Listen to a completely different take on St. Vincent’s 2021 single below.
