Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

otm good stuff

Answering my own question but I wasn’t too far off with the “lesser effort” in her music videos for this cycle compared to previous albums, from an AMA he did in reddit a couple hours ago:

There was also a lot of stuff planned that didn't pan out due to my manager's passing (LAUREN FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!) and my pregnancy. We had planned a short film with Jodeb that was about all the Goddesses fighting but being pregnant got too crazy to make somethning like that, and a "modern demonology" with Heavy Metal Magazine that would be a coffee table book with all the Gods

Kinda sucks that her original vision for the visuals of the album got slashed away.

Here’s the AMA : https://www.reddit.com/r/popheads/comments/fb38tj/popheads_its_grimes_and_my_new_album_miss/

the ama also has grimes talking about the mix:

For Miss A i think each song is a mini world/ personality whereas AA is more of a cohesive statement. So some songs just required specific personelle to finish. Like with So heavy, its such a wierd song production wise, i needed someone who could keep the bass heavy but bring the vocals up without losing verb and without muddying the mix, which is why Illangelo was the only option to mix. He's worked extednsively with the weeknd and i think a song like the hills is one of the only songs that has lots of reverb on the vocal and still bangs.

I know she’s just typing fast, but I genuinely dig the “personelle” neologism.

I listened to this one again yesterday and my new conclusion is that not all of the songs have an awful sound, just the ones I would actually listen to (delete forever, idoru). The songs that I don’t care much about don’t sound that bad like say, “you’ll miss me when I’m not around”, that one actually sounds good to me.

Do we know who’s working with her in each track? Illangelo is hit or miss to me but most of his work with the weeknd is great. Did that quote means he worked in the whole album or just on “so heavy”?

Carlo “Illangelo” Montagnese is only credited as “mixer” on that particular track.

I’ve had delete forever in my head all week, such a weird flat disturbing yet beautiful song. The pro tools sterilized banjo is affecting in a way hard to articulate

it is my song of the year so far

I'm really getting into this album, it's full of hooks and it's not super long so I can listen to most of it in a single commute.

Yeah I was wrong about wanting those other mixes on the CD, it’s actually the perfect length.

I highly appreciate “we appreciate power” but she was correct in not including it on this imo.

At first I was disappointed but the flow of the album is vv good and musically it doesn’t quite fit in.

I’ve officially warmed up to “delete forever” again after listening to it on cheaper headphones. It still sounds a bit flat to my ears but it’s a good Grimes song regardless of how it sounds.

Just want to point out how clever it is that "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around" (poppiest song ever about suicide?) features gurgling, watery "You'll miss me when I'm down" vocals at the end -- musically expressing the "I'll tie my feet to rocks and drown" sentiment via the chopped 'n screwed chorus treatment so prevalent in recent pop hits.

guYS i mIgHt kILl mYSeLf!!1

Oh, go soak yr head ;-)

“You’ll miss me when I’m not around“ has some good hooks though I think it probably is the least essential of the 10 tracks. which isn’t to say it’s not good just that I think the rest of the album is quite a bit better.

oh man, I think it's such a great jam!

("before the fever" is the least essential to me... kinda feels mainly like a "bridge" into "IDORU"?)

I think it’s a jam but maybe just a step below for me?

Idk though I usually have shifting opinions with strong albums like this which are dense w/quality cuts. Some rise above others in my estimation over time after previously having been slightly lesser.

I really loved “violence” and “so heavy I fell through the earth”, looking forward to hearing this

After two listens I'd say there's a greater confidence here. Doesn't wash over you like some of the earlier stuff. Wish it really rocked more or had straight up perverse disco like "violence".

guYS i mIgHt kILl mYSeLf!!1

― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Monday, March 2, 2020 7:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

^^ unheimisch feeling of "uh oh, this post will not age well"

Love suicide humor, but I guess she has it coming

Accordingly, the earthiest musical moment on her new album, the strummed acoustic guitars on the track “Delete Forever” (which shares its bizarro-country vibes with 2015’s “California”) is not what it sounds like. “Actually, hilariously,” she says, “that guitar is from a sample pack that I chopped up.” She fakes it so real she’s beyond fake.

no wonder it sounds so off to me then

Good album.

otm

no wonder it sounds so off to me then

― ufo, Thursday, March 5, 2020 4:50 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

all rap music does this fwiw

OMG you guys, I drove by a huge billboard for this album on my way home 😂:

https://i.imgur.com/VqjKJkS_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

I wish I’d been able to get a better shot of it, but you get the main idea. The album art is off to the side

I wonder if Grimes' & Katy Perry's babies are gonna grow up as BFF's.

I really like Miss Anthropocene, far more that I expected to anyway.

It did give me a small smile to read this line from the Pitchfork review...

and in a relationship with a man whose real-time net worth literally jumped from $41 billion to $44.2 billion between drafts of this review.

...then click the link and see it's dropped to $30.5 billion since.

I find it weird you correlate artistic merits with economics.

I don't. Those were two separate thoughts. I enjoy Grimes a lot. I think her boyfriend is a pretentious asshole and I feel no sympathy for his fortune dwindling.

I find it weird you thought I explicitly said I connected the two.

Sorry. I misunderstood your point.

Congratulations to Grimes and Elon Musk! Their newborn son, who Musk says is named X Æ A-12, arrived last night https://t.co/7eRjVMvul2

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) May 5, 2020

X Æ A-12 is a strong name. irish i think.

believe it's actually Gaelic, meaning "one who'll be punched"

the thing is, people rebel against their parents and also learn from their shortcomings. X Æ A-12 will likely grow up to be a very well-adjusted, friendly guy. maybe an i love hoops poster.

Showbiz brats are noted for their grounded and likeable nature

Had no idea until this morning that he has 6 kids from his first marriage.

Sorry, five.

believe it's actually Gaelic, meaning "one who'll be punched"

― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), mardi 5 mai 2020 15:37 (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ehehe

A baby is always good news. Sincere congrats to the new parents.

Nice thing about having a version number in your name is you don't need to go "jr." You can just increment the version number.

excited to hear xæa-12 when they play casa del popolo in 20 years

•X, the unknown variable ⚔️
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent 🤍
+
(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
(⚔️🐁 metal rat)

— ꧁ ༒ Gℜiꪔ⃕es ༒꧂ 🍓🐉🎀 小仙女 (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020

man, "x, the unknown variable" is just the worst. That shit is just meaningless convention like "dave".

"Dave" is potentially meaningul, I guess

"our favorite aircraft"