Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

he isn't the vocalist, that's his brother

tbf he probably shouts in the shouty parts of their songs

<i>Title track reminds me of Is there a name for that genre of turn-of-the-90s pop-rock with the positive vibes, huge guitar leads, and gated drums?.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 November 2015 16:07 (Yesterday) Permalink</i>

At points the album also makes me think a bit of:
00's girl-fronted radio-pop songs that sounds like pop-punk/power-pop/blondie
and maybe The over-produced female vocalist mor-pop to art-pop continuum of the 80s and sometimes early 90s, often but not necessarily from Canada

Gotta love ILX and it's strangely specific genre threads.

***SETLIST SPOILERS**** ugh why tf would you go on tour to promote yr new album and not play the fucking lead single and best track from the new album. The show is tomorrow and I am so pre-emptively disappointed :(

i missed the Atlanta show for various reasons (incl. that I didn't know it was happening)

stevie plz report back i am still considering buying outrageously $$$ scalped ticket

Our tickets were scalped but not outrageously so (super sold out and only $35 when face value is $25)

also Carly Rae is not playing "Black Heart" even though she used to and Shamir is not playing "If It Wasn't True" MY LIFE IS OVERRRRRRRR *screams in pillow*

show in DC postponed tonight

Event Postponed: This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced shortly and all original tickets will be honored. Refunds available at place of purchase until 12/30/15
Grimes (POSTPONED)
with special guest Nicole Dollanganger

heard that they were suspending performances until will butler has completed a full funk audit

lol

hahaha

The Poisonous Jurassic Life Mix.

licensed funk merchant will butler

http://nbhap.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads//2015/04/Will-Butler-Live-Photo-by-Jason-Oxenham-770x462.jpg

'I recorded with James Murphy'

Stereogum reviews Will Butler reviews

http://www.stereogum.com/1843549/arcade-fires-will-butler-reviewed-grimes-art-angels/news/

well that's a drag, i was gonna go tonight

this album rules and I say this as someone who wasn't all that taken with her before. her beats and melodies are so much stronger and brighter on this than on anything else she's done.

The more i listen to this the more i see its brilliance. It feels less personal than Visions, which was hard for me to make peace with at first, but seriously she is working with such a broad pallette here it's hard not to stand back in awe

Pin is really good

Still find the new realiti disapointing, but only because the demo was so limpid and perfect and the ultimate expression of her early project, which transformed dance music into dream pop

"Title track reminds me of Is there a name for that genre of turn-of-the-90s pop-rock with the positive vibes, huge guitar leads, and gated drums?"

Madchester?

I agree, serious dearth of new tunes at the show I saw her at, I think all she did was Venus Fly, SCREAM, and Kill v Maim

"Pin is really good"

My fave on the album

That little arcade arpeggio thing is so rad, especially because it's relatively subtle. It's weird to hear music this bright and pop that still feels so restrained in many ways. She never overdoes it on anything really

cancelled another show tonight

Philly was cancelled ;_;

:-(

If she has the throat cold that I have, you would have been treated to Grimes as performed by Tom Waits.

Still find the new realiti disapointing, but only because the demo was so limpid and perfect and the ultimate expression of her early project, which transformed dance music into dream pop

She said it was never meant as part of the album tho, just a bonus to everyone who liked the song (so, hardly mocking). I really like the new Realiti myself

the vocals on the new realiti are better almost across the board though

I found this a lil disappointing :( not that it's bad just that I think I'd like it more if her voice was more central. On the last album it was just a texture but that complemented the production well, here she's working with this pop sound that functions to push a lead vocal but she's still using her voice (IMO her greatest talent) in a way that feels subdued or ornamental rather than idk....young thug

When a song is as good as 'Realiti' is, it's hard to really get too upset.

True, but I think her initial instinct to leave it behind when the demo couldn't be salvaged, was the right choice. One of my all-time favourite tracks and to be fair, I would react negatively to *any* rework of it.

I feel this way about the "everything is embarrassing" demo (not blood orange's)

I think I might reach a moment this weekend when "Reali" isn't somersaulting round my head.

reali alfred

oh reali

every morning there are memes to cosign

"California" is an earworm. I like "Kill V Maim" it feels very early 2000s Hot Topic rock.

every morning there are memes to cosign

― Tim F, Sunday, November 15, 2015 8:48 PM

waiting on the desk for my signature

I like to imagine that there is some perfect late 90s / early 00s psueudo alterna-rock-dance chick album that has the perfect precedent for a lot of the stuff on here but which we're all too terrified to go back and listen to. Like, buried on some Bif Naked or Poe or Vitamin C album.

I briefly considered the first Imogen Heap album but when I went back to reskim it wasn't on-point.

Please, continue on your hunt for the Grimes rosetta stone!

the vocals on the new realiti are better almost across the board though

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, November 15, 2015 2:46 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this opinion is really different from mine.

i love the new album for what it is but the realiti demo has that visions-era vocal style which for me is still grimes' trademark

do you critic-types think artangels is going to produce a top 10 single? belly of the beat and pin seem like contenders

man, i like this record a lot

do you critic-types think artangels is going to produce a top 10 single? belly of the beat and pin seem like contenders

― Treeship, Sunday, November 15, 2015 9:42 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not a chance

yeah no

what about that california song

it's about california. that's a pretty mainstream state