# Surgeon guitar solo

> Annie Clark's guitar solo on Surgeon by St. Vincent (2011) starts at about 3:05. From the album Strange Mercy. Ranked #433 of all time across 80 lists.

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St. Vincent, 2011, from *Strange Mercy*. Solo by *Annie Clark*.

The closing solo breaks the song's calm with a wild, glitchy flurry of fuzz.

Surgeon, from Strange Mercy, spends most of its length in a calm, cool mood before Annie Clark breaks it with a wild closing solo. Her fuzz tone is dense and glitchy, and she tears into a flurry of fast, jagged lines that sound almost like a machine malfunctioning. The contrast between the song's composure and the solo's chaos makes the ending feel like a release. It shows Clark's gift for combining precise songwriting with sudden bursts of noise. Listen for how the solo seems to splinter, notes jumping and cutting out, giving the impression of a control system slipping into chaos.

Surgeon by St. Vincent is ranked #433 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Annie Clark and the song was released in 2011. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #79 (uDiscover Music).

## In our lists

- [The Greatest Solo of Every Year](https://greatestsolos.com/list/solo-of-every-year/) — #68
- [The 25 Greatest Indie Rock Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/indie/) — #16
- [The Best St. Vincent Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/st-vincent-guitar-solos/) — #1
- [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 2011](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-2011/) — #1
- [The 18 Best Guitar Solos of the 2010s](https://greatestsolos.com/list/2010s-guitar-solos/) — #11
- [The Greatest Guitar Solos by Women Guitarists](https://greatestsolos.com/list/women-guitarists-guitar-solos/) — #11

## Sources

- [uDiscover Music: The Best Guitar Solos Of All Time: 108 Amazing Moments](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-guitar-solos-ever/) — #79
- [Treble: 10 of the Best Indie Rock Guitar Solos](https://www.treblezine.com/38480-10-essential-indie-rock-guitar-solos/)

### Who played the guitar solo on Surgeon?

Annie Clark played the solo on St. Vincent's Surgeon (2011).

### Where does Surgeon rank among the greatest guitar solos?

#433 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them.

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