Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

i LOL every time i get to the "pokemon reference" part of the openning track now

Seems like james logs in here every now and again so maybe he'll see it and pass it on

^^^ Whiney has made an invaluable contribution to the critical discourse around this record.

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looooooool

@MarkoP

I haven't paid much attention to the critical discourse surrounding this record, but the Pokemon thing was apparent to me from first listen.

1. she loved the fan art

2. it is not a pokemon reference. it is just a lyric that contains the phrase "catch them all"

oh dang that's awesome! I just told him and he was super excited and happy. <3

this is all super adorable!

that made our day!

dang that made MY day and i'm just a guy on a grimes thread

ditto

^^

I like the Natalie Prass cover of "REALiTi"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bviqJAUPkDw

2. it is not a pokemon reference. it is just a lyric that contains the phrase "catch them all"

*quietly erases team rocket-themed response record*

Flesh without blood is TIME's best song of 2015.

http://time.com/4132832/top-10-best-songs-2/

It's not even the best song off the album! Butterfly and Eazily are current favorites. Of the singles I think flesh is my least favorite. Kill maim and the song that samples Rihanna are better.

Realiti (demo) is the best Grimes song this year, though.

nomar yr kid is rad

So this won NME album of the year? Not that I'm a fan of NME, but cool that they for once get something right.

thanks schlump, he is a swell dude

1. she loved the fan art

2. it is not a pokemon reference. it is just a lyric that contains the phrase "catch them all"

― james brooks, Friday, 4 December 2015 01:54 (Yesterday) Permalink

oh dang that's awesome! I just told him and he was super excited and happy. <3

― nomar, Friday, 4 December 2015 02:22 (Yesterday) Permalink

this is all super adorable!

― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 December 2015 02:24 (Yesterday) Permalink

that made our day!

― nomar, Friday, 4 December 2015 02:39 (Yesterday) Permalink

Awesome!

that is fantastic

and the song that samples Rihanna

._.

Realiti (demo) is the best Grimes song this year, though.

Preach.

preaching

that is, I completely agree and participate in spreading the word (demo)

I couldn't find a physical copy of Art Angels (any format) anywhere in London yesterday. I traipsed all over, looking.

Either the NME has some influence still or it's a complete irrelevance, not sure which.

don't think the physical copy is out for another few days still

agree with the all love for Realiti (demo)

runners-up at the moment are probably Butterfly, Artangels and Flesh Without Blood

I couldn't find a physical copy of Art Angels (any format) anywhere in London yesterday. I traipsed all over, looking.

released December 11

oh, OK. Thanks! Could've sworn I'd seen it on shelves a few weeks ago when released digitally. Just my imagination.

This showed up in my mailbox today.

Nice to finally have it to take with me.

Serious question: had this album been released in February, would it rate as high on year end-lists?

To draw a comparison, Bjork released her album in January and it made it to most "mid-year lists" but it seems everybody forgot about it 10 months later when they hype died down.

Maybe that Bjork album just wasn't that sticky when it came down to it?

Like, the Dawn Richard album came out really early this year, there was 0 hype outside ILM and yet I still listen to it.

I have no idea if Art Angels is going to wear off in a few months. But this is my problem with year-end lists, really. I don't really decide what the "best albums of a year" were until halfway through the next one, but then you lose the zeitgeisty sense of ~now~ I guess.

The Bjork album is somewhere on most of the EOY lists I've seen, and that's doing pretty well for a dense, dark, often inaccessible and intensely personal album from an artist several decades into their career. Certainly not comparable to a light, fun, energetic pop record from an artist who's been one of the big buzz artists of the last couple of years.

To draw a comparison, Bjork released her album in January and it made it to most "mid-year lists" but it seems everybody forgot about it 10 months later when they hype died down.

wait this doesn't make any sense? it being on most EOY lists surely means people haven't forgotten about it?

and yeah its appeal isn't really along the lines of constant social media conversation (plus a lot of björk's post-album activity, like the moma exhibition, had an underwhelming reception) - that doesn't mean it's been forgotten

oh wait sorry i misread, you said mid-year lists

(but it HAS been on virtually every EOY list as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi2N5KHgO80

i'm looking at this thread on my phone so i'm just assuming markers embedded the blink 182 "i miss you" video

FADER put out a short documentary on her. I just posted the video.

But, for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

(It is here that I will note that I don’t have Flash installed on this machine, so when I’m posting from Safari, my primary browser, I actually can’t see my own videos once I’ve posted them. All of those Blink embeds become whitespace.)

markers did you preserve her "ween r canonical" tweet? I think she deleted it

I think I might’ve seen that because I think I might’ve confused Ween with Wheatus at first or something like that. I don’t think I have the tweet, but it looks like it happened around ten days or so ago.

There is this: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=from%3Agrimezsz%20ween&src=typd

I'm still not sure how I feel about this album. At times it seems like exactly the right direction for her to go in after Visions, at other times maybe more like a noble misfire, or an awkward transitional album. The production sometimes seems to be trying too hard to fill up every nook and cranny of the song, whereas Visions and "Realiti (Demo)" were much more spacious. Maybe it's churlish to complain about an album having too many good ideas, but that's kind of where I'm at, for now at least.

I wish I had more to say about this album, but I just like it fine and that's about it. It's good and catchy.

I so love albums with too many ideas :) It's definitely a matter of taste, but the overflow of ideas is a huge part of why this is my favorite album of 15.

i picked this up today, pretty disappointing for me, but then again i don't really like pop music. much preferred "visions" and "giedi primes".

TLG are you doing a list this yr

no, i don't really listen to enough new music to warrant that

maybe a house/techno singles list but not an albums thing or anything like that

i did pick up a lot of reissues but reissues lists are pretty boring imo

the "kill v maim" / "artangels" / "easily" stretch in the middle is pretty undeniable

i can't believe my favorite song on Art Angels (Pin) isn't even in the top 10 most listened to songs from the album on the Spotify listening stats...inconceivable!