Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Listening to Halfaxa for the first time right now.

It's, uhh. . . really, really good

shit http://pitchfork.com/news/66147-grimes-walks-off-stage-at-barclays-center/

Hope everything's OK...

Ahh, I hate that kind of unsettling mood. Hope she'll be alright.

Damn dude, that sounds fucked. Best wishes to the Grimes family, whatever this shit was.

I really can't stand that "Realiti" has taken permanent residence in my head.

Welcome to etc., etc....

too much bass

― flappy bird, Saturday, May 14, 2016 12:46 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no such thing imo

― μpright mammal (mh), Saturday, May 14, 2016 11:58 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah we are all about that

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, May 14, 2016 12:54 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like i couldn't breathe or hear her sing. then i moved and it was slightly better. good show though

― flappy bird, Saturday, May 14, 2016 4:26 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was at one show like this, a stadium concert, where the bass made it literally physically uncomfortable to be in the audience

bass was way too loud when i saw her

She announced a new song on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGvCHb4jfj-/?taken-by=actuallygrimes

http://pitchfork.com/news/66165-grimes-i-will-explain-what-happened-at-barclays-once-i-can-safely-and-legally-do-so/

Take care of business, Grimes. <3

Video of her running off stage. Her mic cuts out and it looks like she hears something in her ear piece, and then she bolts. Seems like a serious stalker/death threat... really really scary especially in the wake of Orlando and the murder of Christina Grimmie.

https://youtu.be/HNNMS0CpwRw?t=1m38s

that's...a weird conclusion to jump to based on that 'evidence'

Yeah, I'm gonna take her word and not speculate about it.

On an unrelated note: I hadn't really listened to the album since late last fall. I really liked the record, but it didn't fit in with my mood at the time at all. A few weeks ago I was in my local comic shop and they dropped Flesh Without Blood into their in-store playlist, which is mostly just pure 70s/80s punk rock, and it lit up my world. Since then, I've been enjoying an Art Angels renaissance.

jews did grimes eleven

What the hell? Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie did the almost exact same thing that Grimes did, just one night earlier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zFGK5LFRr4

where does Meatloaf fit into this

Gibbard was being bottled though

So no global conspiracy against indie musicians?

not the finest vintage to bottle imo

Song Exploder did an ep on Kill v Maim
http://songexploder.net/grimes

Oh sweet.

Yeah, that was really good. Hearing the vocals in isolation was super weird.

Really cool to hear the crowd noise side-chained to the kick drum

Super interesting. loved this episode. the crowd noise trick is pretty genius. she seems so driven in her (weird) ideas. pretty inspirational.

Next up: UFC

http://pitchfork.com/news/66200-listen-to-grimes-new-song-medieval-warfare-from-suicide-squad/

& u never get sad & u never get sick & u never get weak bayBEE

um it's "u never get sick we're DEEP / in the belly of the beat"

oh so it is

you scared me tho i thought i'd made up you never get weak

they way she sounds in her lower register for "in the belly of the beat yeah" always struck me as a very kate bush moment

ha, my correction was incorrect, sorry

I was bummed her song wasn't actually in Suicide Squad.

time to sue Warner I guess

Well it wasn't a blatantly obvious and overused music cue, so of course it wasn't used.

Lol... I mean they had a forgotten Eminem single in there fer chrissakes.

without me is not "forgotten", it is one of Eminem's best-selling and most enduring singles.

and i sing it to my cat often

Why you looking for a harmony?
There is harmony in everything
It’s a butterfly whose wings span the world

i have not viewed any of these yet but

http://pitchfork.com/news/68786-grimes-releases-7-new-videos-scream-butterfly-more-watch/
http://pitchfork.com/news/68786-grimes-releases-7-new-videos-scream-butterfly-more-watch/
http://pitchfork.com/news/68786-grimes-releases-7-new-videos-scream-butterfly-more-watch/
http://pitchfork.com/news/68786-grimes-releases-7-new-videos-scream-butterfly-more-watch/
http://pitchfork.com/news/68786-grimes-releases-7-new-videos-scream-butterfly-more-watch/

!!!

Dude! This album has been such a slow burner for me and I've only just started to embrace the non-singles after the poll last week. This is a gift!

yeah, what a nice surprise!

does anyone have any thoughts on HANA? 3 of the 7 new videos are hers, i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQUqCRkioG4

produced/did backing vocals for a new Aristophanes track

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/825526619406114816

✓

http://pitchfork.com/news/69494-grimes-and-janelle-monae-preview-venus-fly-video-watch/

fuck buying tidal for a music video tho

I tried most of the big streaming subscription services in 2016 and... Tidal's pretty good? idk, everyone loves Spotify

when i looked at tidal last year their catalog was tiny compared to spotify, they had well under half of the stuff in my main spotify playlist. maybe its expanded now?

Spotify has the worst sound quality of all of them. Apple Music is p good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bc27oFFJo4

Ah, the time of year when I can listen to this without feeling any weirder than I already do for listening to it in the first place. Love this song.

I have to admit, with no offense to the Grimes family, when that Ajit Pai video came out last week, I was like "why does this guy seem so familiar? Oh yeah, Grimes' step-dad!"