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There’s often an unnerving poise to the music of St. Vincent — an almost eerie iciness that Annie Clark delights in shattering with sudden blurts of guitar.

On a hot afternoon after biking up the hill from the lake, that iciness is appreciated.

So, in that way, Sunday and Monday could be called equals in terms of their iciness, while Monday became the clear warmth winner.

On the desolate battlefronts of southern and eastern Ukraine, the clinging, clay-like mud of late autumn is beginning to congeal into iciness.

To simplify and improve the flavor, I wanted to make one that required no heat and, especially, no water, which can mute fruit’s vibrancy and contribute to that iciness.