eheh. vive le quebec libre ! (she 's not from quebec, though, is she ?)
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 4 May 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
had to check p4k to see if that was the cover of her new album
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 May 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Vancouver, BC, of Québécois, Ukrainian and Russian descent.
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 4 May 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
i listen to REALiTi p much every day
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 May 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
yes
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Saturday, 16 May 2015 03:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's really a great song
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 16 May 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
i do too.
― soyrev, Saturday, 16 May 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
uh huh
― MatthewK, Saturday, 16 May 2015 11:45 (nine years ago) link
So...new album in October...
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 25 May 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Awesome, looking forward.
― austinato (Austin), Monday, 25 May 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
YAAAAAAAAAS
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 25 May 2015 06:01 (nine years ago) link
curious to hear her doing a "real instruments"-focused record in 2015, high hopes
― soyrev, Monday, 25 May 2015 07:26 (nine years ago) link
"Real instruments" ? That's the concept of the new album ? As for the release date, surely it will leak or be rush released before, won't it ? Do big/heavily anticipated albums still make it to the official release date ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 25 May 2015 09:00 (nine years ago) link
so says she: https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/602328389601644544
and nah she's planning a surprise release, prob will drop online soon as it's finished
― soyrev, Monday, 25 May 2015 09:29 (nine years ago) link
Breaking: grimes surprises everyone with announcement of surprise album release that she will release unexpected a few months from now
― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 May 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
the good old October Surprise, named because it's announced in May
― some dude, Monday, 25 May 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah that did seem a bit silly to me. maybe even moreso than kanye saying his album is mostly finished and will get a surprise drop soon, all the while playing multiple singles live, announcing album title changes, etc
― soyrev, Monday, 25 May 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
"Real instruments" ? That's the concept of the new album ?
It's her Random Access Memories!
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 25 May 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Knowing grimes she probably did this with tongue in cheek
― 龜, Monday, 25 May 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
"surprise release" means "exact release date not announced ahead of time"
calm down
― james brooks, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
im excited
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
james pls give us the inside scoop
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 00:27 (nine years ago) link
In any case, new Grimes before the year is out. I'm happy.
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
ㅋ
― soyrev, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
I can't relax when there's an unexpected release sometime in October
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
Just try to relax, and the release will happen. Happens to everyone sometime.
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/28/grimes-cover-story-interview
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
its always interesting to me abt creative ppl having to like remember to eat
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Friday, May 15, 2015 11:54 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I still do btw
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
i struggle to remember to eat but i suck at shit compared to grimes :'D
and yeah just listened to "realiti" today, and last week (it's p much the ultimate rainy humid asian summer song), i think i said upthread something along the lines of it being the most replayable thing i've heard this year and i'm also standing by that vibe
― soyrev, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
I want to watch Star Wars w Grimes.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Grimes' mom, @Garossino is a good person to follow on Twitter, especially if you live in Vancouver (she's the editor of a progressive political news website) (in which Grimes makes the occasional cameo).
― everything, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
She is a genius
― Treeship, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for the “diss track about male producers”
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
REALiTi making it to Starbucks playlist but still no release?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
I typed something for a dumb survey at the end of 2013 about Grimes that I was really proud of that I'd like to post if you'd indulge me!
Q: Did you take part in the ice bucket challenge? If not, why not? Grimes declined due to animal testing issues, was the grief she got for that deserved?
Do you think people deserve grief? Do you give people grief when they deserve it? I hope to relieve people of their grief. For a long time I had this theory: the impossibility of a female Kurt Cobain. What he represents, leaning against the system and yet supported by consumers, there was no woman in the world that could command the masses so utterly. The music industry, the male-biased music consuming populace wouldn't let her. This thing I've been stewing about since I saw Grimes play to 20 people in 2011, and started reading her Tumblr, and then really starting feeling when "Oblivion" came out, is that Claire is the closest thing we have to a female Kurt Cobain, smart enough to understand the system but righteous enough to wall-jump away from it. But also, interestingly, what an inversion her approach is to Kurt's. His pose was anti-establishment, her pose is post-structural. He was rigorous, she is always looking outward, game for genre-experimentation and hilarity. I feel like even if I don't like her music, and I do so far, I will always feel like she's several steps ahead of me, several books ahead of me, and that makes me feel really fucking good. Anyone who gives her grief about anything can kick rocks.
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
nice
a friend of mine subletted her room when she moved out of montreal, she told me some girl named claire had lived there before and made music in the room, but i only found out later it was *that* claire, and only found out while reading that fader interview just now that she recorded visions in it. it was a super small, no window bedroom in a p nast mile-ex apartment on parc
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
not a crucial thread detour but: i thought mile ex was way east of parc
& fgti otmthe scale on which she practices the genre-experimentation-&-hilarity thing is really inspirational
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
way east of parc? mile ex is the interzone between mile end and parc ex. north of bernard south of jean talon, from like parc to clark
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
ohh right, right. i think i was thinking of parc ex. thank you.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 30 July 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
yr welcome but uh parc ex is west of parc (& north of beaumont) ;-) lol
― flopson, Thursday, 30 July 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
how about a thread for every time you listen to realiti and it's awesome? currently listening, it's awesome!
― niels, Monday, 10 August 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
otm
― five six and (man alive), Monday, 10 August 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
How bout a thread for when there's a pre-order available. The suspense is killing me.
― how's life, Monday, 10 August 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
I know it's not as simple as this makes it sound, but it amazes me that this is among the scrapped material. The part where it plunged into and back out of an underground tunnel is just a+++
― Tim F, Monday, 10 August 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
technicality but mile ex is north of the van horne viaduc, not bernard. that part is still officialy plateau (and thus the mile end).
also Realiti is still great.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 10 August 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Technicaliti
― Tim F, Monday, 10 August 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
i'm still listening to realiti most days (twice today) and it's still great. (and yeah, pretty wild that it's something she seemingly just threw out into the world as a no-expectation stopgap)
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 10 August 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
― Tim F, Monday, August 10, 2015 6:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Every morning there are viaducs to climb
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
realiti
bump
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Saturday, 22 August 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link