In 2006, she began recording a studio album under the stage name St. Vincent. In an interview on The Colbert Report , she said that she “took [her] moniker from a line in a Nick Cave song” that referred to the hospital where Dylan Thomas died: “And Dylan Thomas died drunk in / St. Vincent’s hospital ” (from Cave’s song “There She Goes, My Beautiful World”, from the 2004 album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus ). The name is also a reference to her great-grandmother, whose middle name was St. Vincent. Clark released her debut album, Marry Me , on July 10, 2007, on Beggars Banquet Records . The album was named after a line from the television sitcom Arrested Development .
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