Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

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The Poisonous Jurassic Life Mix.

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well that's a drag, i was gonna go tonight

this album rules and I say this as someone who wasn't all that taken with her before. her beats and melodies are so much stronger and brighter on this than on anything else she's done.

The more i listen to this the more i see its brilliance. It feels less personal than Visions, which was hard for me to make peace with at first, but seriously she is working with such a broad pallette here it's hard not to stand back in awe

Pin is really good

Still find the new realiti disapointing, but only because the demo was so limpid and perfect and the ultimate expression of her early project, which transformed dance music into dream pop

"Title track reminds me of Is there a name for that genre of turn-of-the-90s pop-rock with the positive vibes, huge guitar leads, and gated drums?"

Madchester?

I agree, serious dearth of new tunes at the show I saw her at, I think all she did was Venus Fly, SCREAM, and Kill v Maim

"Pin is really good"

My fave on the album

That little arcade arpeggio thing is so rad, especially because it's relatively subtle. It's weird to hear music this bright and pop that still feels so restrained in many ways. She never overdoes it on anything really

cancelled another show tonight

Philly was cancelled ;_;

:-(

If she has the throat cold that I have, you would have been treated to Grimes as performed by Tom Waits.

Still find the new realiti disapointing, but only because the demo was so limpid and perfect and the ultimate expression of her early project, which transformed dance music into dream pop

She said it was never meant as part of the album tho, just a bonus to everyone who liked the song (so, hardly mocking). I really like the new Realiti myself

the vocals on the new realiti are better almost across the board though

I found this a lil disappointing :( not that it's bad just that I think I'd like it more if her voice was more central. On the last album it was just a texture but that complemented the production well, here she's working with this pop sound that functions to push a lead vocal but she's still using her voice (IMO her greatest talent) in a way that feels subdued or ornamental rather than idk....young thug

When a song is as good as 'Realiti' is, it's hard to really get too upset.

True, but I think her initial instinct to leave it behind when the demo couldn't be salvaged, was the right choice. One of my all-time favourite tracks and to be fair, I would react negatively to *any* rework of it.

I feel this way about the "everything is embarrassing" demo (not blood orange's)

I think I might reach a moment this weekend when "Reali" isn't somersaulting round my head.

reali alfred

oh reali

every morning there are memes to cosign

"California" is an earworm. I like "Kill V Maim" it feels very early 2000s Hot Topic rock.

every morning there are memes to cosign

― Tim F, Sunday, November 15, 2015 8:48 PM

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I like to imagine that there is some perfect late 90s / early 00s psueudo alterna-rock-dance chick album that has the perfect precedent for a lot of the stuff on here but which we're all too terrified to go back and listen to. Like, buried on some Bif Naked or Poe or Vitamin C album.

I briefly considered the first Imogen Heap album but when I went back to reskim it wasn't on-point.

Please, continue on your hunt for the Grimes rosetta stone!

the vocals on the new realiti are better almost across the board though

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, November 15, 2015 2:46 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this opinion is really different from mine.

i love the new album for what it is but the realiti demo has that visions-era vocal style which for me is still grimes' trademark

do you critic-types think artangels is going to produce a top 10 single? belly of the beat and pin seem like contenders

man, i like this record a lot

do you critic-types think artangels is going to produce a top 10 single? belly of the beat and pin seem like contenders

― Treeship, Sunday, November 15, 2015 9:42 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not a chance

yeah no

what about that california song

it's about california. that's a pretty mainstream state

they'll love it in pomona

I don't think the broader public typically embraces such ostentatious displays of weirdness until they're already familiar, and feel comfortable, with the artist in question. Gwen's "What You Waiting For" is allowable because it was from a singer whose band had been troubling the charts for some 9 years prior, the persona she displayed was just a more oddball version of what listeners already expected from her. Even Gaga had a full album of hits under her belt before she started actually living up to her art school rhetoric.

Would love to see Grimes in the pop charts.

my mom asked the other day if i knew who grimes was

still loving this album.

It would be great to see her on the charts but yeah, no. I would be pleasantly surprised but no way. Tim F has an interesting insight, I'm trying to remember 'weird' avant artists that hit the charts without a more traditional single first. Laurie Anderson? Then again, weird was cool in the 80s.

This album makes Visions a hard listen for me now. New realiti also better.

lol. Been playing this nonstop pretty much myself

Laurie Anderson definitely the big exception but she also feels very exceptional ("O Superman" doesn't even try to be pop except in the broadest sense).

New wave produced quite a few exceptions to my rule even as early as 1979 - "Rock Lobster", Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number" etc.

But I think that's more reflective of an entire genre movement pushing a fetishisation of a particular strain of weirdness into popular consciousness, and in that regard is more similar to e.g. the Busta / Timbaland / Missy / Hype Williams moment in rap/r&b.

Perhaps not surprising that The Weeknd is mayble the closest example in recent times.

and even "What You Waiting For" wasn't a hit in America.

I think her management said they wanted to try to get a song on pop radio in the next few months but I don't know anything would get much traction

yeah it's just not a matter of "will the public embrace it?" -- it has to be pushed first