Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

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

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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!"

lol wtf seriously?

great track

vanessa fucking rules as pointed out

oh, and i hadn't even noticed this:

last jedi is so good i cried on the sidewalk after and then got the flu and slept for 12 hours

— Grimes (@Grimezsz) December 16, 2017

just played label new music they rly dig it so hopefully smthn soon 😛

— Grimes (@Grimezsz) December 16, 2017

dope song!

love the video

Ha, I'd missed that Christmas track. Nice.

Wait Ajit Pai is Grimes step-dad? I can’t find anything on google confirming this.

No, I just meant he looks like it in the video. Indian man wearing sunglasses indoors while smiling eerily and waving a weapon around.

also, just for clarity's sake, by weapon I'm referring to the hatchet in the grimes video and the nerf gun in the ajit pai video.

Really hope the new One kicks ass so ppl will admit the last one was eehhhhaaaite

yeah because the massive amount of enjoyment I've had from that album would somehow be invalidated by her releasing another great record

The release of Art Angels is the best thing that’s happened in the past five years.

if the new one sucks there is no chance d-40 will admit art angels was a radiant masterpiece, so I think we all hope it's good

only thing approaching Art Angels for me the past few years is the Fever Ray s/t

Visions >>>>>>>>> Art Angels. Not holding out much hope for the next one.

my take is
Art Angels >>>>>>>>> Visions

we should poll

Visions revealed a promising artist. Art Angels made good on that promise.

art angels is alllllright imo, kind of feels like she's dodging the spotlight but not in a way that feels confident or purposeful

its a progression from visions but i think visions promises a lot more, or contains more potential in its dna

i agree. i like art angels a lot, but the 3 year gap between albums compounded the disappointment... it really sounds like she skipped an album in between the two, which we know she did... there's a dearth there, despite both albums being great.

Crystal ball desserves more love

But albums are brilliant and Grimes rules. If the new album is half as good as any of them we’re good. Frankly a bit afraid it might not live up to expectations, no idea how you can follow up and improve on what she has done so far.

i revisited art angels the other week and i’m sorta with deej. only about half of it really hits imo (kill v. maim, pin)

yeah both albums are great but there's one missing in there. it's hard to explain but her catalogue feels weirdly sparse & empty, the leap from Visions to Art Angels is too big and incongruous, it feels like the third album in a trilogy and Visions the first.

iirc grimes' evolution in sound between visions to art angels was partly due informed by her live touring

She made an album then scratched it. That material was, I guess, the missing link in her development

right, that's what i was saying. i'm not criticizing her decision, we're not entitled to that work if she doesn't want to release it, i'm just saying the missing link sticks out to me when I put Visions next to Art Angels

although worth noting that the REALiTi demo- a recording that people worship- is from that scrapped album

there are a few duds on Art Angels - Belly of the Beat feels meandering and SCREAM is completely out of place - but the highs (nearly all the rest of it) are so high that it doesn't bother me much and I would definitely put it above Visions even though Visions is a bit more of a cohesive whole

as far as the unreleased material goes I really hope that David gets a proper release someday, that's one of her best tracks

Realiti (aka the best song from the 2010’s) is the missing link you’re looking for.

^ best song psshaw.

i mean it's very good but realti's sort of taking on a life of its own iirc

*taken

could that not be because it's one of the best songs of the 2010s?

Indeed it could, point taken

as far as the unreleased material goes I really hope that David gets a proper release someday, that's one of her best tracks

― ufo, Tuesday, December 26, 2017 8:37 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes. It’s very frustrating. The live video of her performing it is something else.

It’s insane for someone to write a song like that but have so much other great material they don’t even bother releasing it.

artists can do whatever the fuck they want, if it comes about the audience then that's where shit goes south tbh

I agree. Still.

cheers mate, it is a great song

artists can do whatever the fuck they want, if it comes about the audience then that's where shit goes south tbh

― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, December 26, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This feels like the truth is more dialectical than that but sure

Yeah probably an overstatement on my part, probably should take it easy. Steering this convo back to realti as a missing link (and perhaps "go"), how much do you all feel realti demo gave an indication to her direction on art angels? Feels like it still had a lot of the vocal presence of visions. When California hit on art angels it felt like that summed up where she was at for her audience