Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Realiti ws instantly memorable and lovely but it's also a real grower, which is p cool

Yeah, I'm just letting on this thread waiting for the next spot of info following realiti. I didn't like the bleachers song much, but whatever. This is one of the only threads I have bookmarked these days, specifically in case one of y'all gets new grimes info before I do. Looks like all those new answers were a false alarm this time though.

http://i.imgur.com/281468m.png

3/12/15, n'oublie jamais

eheh. vive le quebec libre ! (she 's not from quebec, though, is she ?)

had to check p4k to see if that was the cover of her new album

Vancouver, BC, of Québécois, Ukrainian and Russian descent.

i listen to REALiTi p much every day

yes

yeah, it's really a great song

i do too.

uh huh

So...new album in October...

Awesome, looking forward.

YAAAAAAAAAS

curious to hear her doing a "real instruments"-focused record in 2015, high hopes

"Real instruments" ? That's the concept of the new album ?
As for the release date, surely it will leak or be rush released before, won't it ? Do big/heavily anticipated albums still make it to the official release date ?

so says she: https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/602328389601644544

and nah she's planning a surprise release, prob will drop online soon as it's finished

Breaking: grimes surprises everyone with announcement of surprise album release that she will release unexpected a few months from now

the good old October Surprise, named because it's announced in May

lol yeah that did seem a bit silly to me. maybe even moreso than kanye saying his album is mostly finished and will get a surprise drop soon, all the while playing multiple singles live, announcing album title changes, etc

"Real instruments" ? That's the concept of the new album ?

It's her Random Access Memories!

Knowing grimes she probably did this with tongue in cheek

"surprise release" means "exact release date not announced ahead of time"

calm down

im excited

james pls give us the inside scoop

In any case, new Grimes before the year is out. I'm happy.

ㅋ

I can't relax when there's an unexpected release sometime in October

Just try to relax, and the release will happen. Happens to everyone sometime.

http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/28/grimes-cover-story-interview

its always interesting to me abt creative ppl having to like remember to eat

i listen to REALiTi p much every day

― johnny crunch, Friday, May 15, 2015 11:54 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still do btw

i struggle to remember to eat but i suck at shit compared to grimes :'D

and yeah just listened to "realiti" today, and last week (it's p much the ultimate rainy humid asian summer song), i think i said upthread something along the lines of it being the most replayable thing i've heard this year and i'm also standing by that vibe

I want to watch Star Wars w Grimes.

Grimes' mom, @Garossino is a good person to follow on Twitter, especially if you live in Vancouver (she's the editor of a progressive political news website) (in which Grimes makes the occasional cameo).

She is a genius

can't wait for the “diss track about male producers”

REALiTi making it to Starbucks playlist but still no release?

I typed something for a dumb survey at the end of 2013 about Grimes that I was really proud of that I'd like to post if you'd indulge me!

Q: Did you take part in the ice bucket challenge? If not, why not? Grimes declined due to animal testing issues, was the grief she got for that deserved?

Do you think people deserve grief? Do you give people grief when they deserve it? I hope to relieve people of their grief. For a long time I had this theory: the impossibility of a female Kurt Cobain. What he represents, leaning against the system and yet supported by consumers, there was no woman in the world that could command the masses so utterly. The music industry, the male-biased music consuming populace wouldn't let her. This thing I've been stewing about since I saw Grimes play to 20 people in 2011, and started reading her Tumblr, and then really starting feeling when "Oblivion" came out, is that Claire is the closest thing we have to a female Kurt Cobain, smart enough to understand the system but righteous enough to wall-jump away from it. But also, interestingly, what an inversion her approach is to Kurt's. His pose was anti-establishment, her pose is post-structural. He was rigorous, she is always looking outward, game for genre-experimentation and hilarity. I feel like even if I don't like her music, and I do so far, I will always feel like she's several steps ahead of me, several books ahead of me, and that makes me feel really fucking good. Anyone who gives her grief about anything can kick rocks.

nice

a friend of mine subletted her room when she moved out of montreal, she told me some girl named claire had lived there before and made music in the room, but i only found out later it was *that* claire, and only found out while reading that fader interview just now that she recorded visions in it. it was a super small, no window bedroom in a p nast mile-ex apartment on parc

not a crucial thread detour but: i thought mile ex was way east of parc

& fgti otm
the scale on which she practices the genre-experimentation-&-hilarity thing is really inspirational

way east of parc? mile ex is the interzone between mile end and parc ex. north of bernard south of jean talon, from like parc to clark

ohh right, right. i think i was thinking of parc ex. thank you.

yr welcome but uh parc ex is west of parc (& north of beaumont) ;-) lol

how about a thread for every time you listen to realiti and it's awesome? currently listening, it's awesome!

otm

How bout a thread for when there's a pre-order available. The suspense is killing me.

I know it's not as simple as this makes it sound, but it amazes me that this is among the scrapped material. The part where it plunged into and back out of an underground tunnel is just a+++

technicality but mile ex is north of the van horne viaduc, not bernard. that part is still officialy plateau (and thus the mile end).

also Realiti is still great.

Technicaliti