St. Vincent, a.k.a Annie Clark, is no doubt a wonderful human being. She's also a fantastic singer-songwriter/musician and has already released one of the albums of the year in Actor.

She's currently on a tour of the US with the revered Andrew Bird, too, and is keeping us updated with regular videos - somewhat of a tour diary of her experiences, Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 of which are below.

Before that, however, here's a few (OK, a lot) dates she'll be playing in the near future on this side of the Atlantic, something you should be wetting your pants with excitement about.

October:

31 - London, Barbican

November

1 - Dublin, Vicar Street
2 - Glasgow, ABC
4 - Manchester, Cathedral
5 - Leeds, Metropolitan University
6 - Bristol, Anson Rooms
8 - Brussels, Cirque Royal
9 - Amsterdam, Melkweg
10 - Hamburg, Grunspan
11 - Berlin, Postbahnhof
12 - Munich, Theaterfabrik
15 - Friburg, Fri-Son Fribourg
16 - Vienna, WuK
17 - Basel, Volkshaus
19 - Cologne, Kulturkirche
20 - Den Haag, Crossing Border Festival
21 - Paris, La Cigale
22 - Katowice, Club Hipnoza
25 - Copenhagen, Vega

Now here are the tour diaries, in chronological order:

You could do A LOT worse than carry on watching these videos.