Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

the (demo) vocal performance has more of a melancholy tinge

Given the album has gotten mostly positive press I think Grimes' complaint was perhaps a little premature.

This could easily end up album of the year though my top 5 or so is now looking very clustered.

Not at the time she wrote that song, though. The reaction to her pop oriented material was pretty excoriating prior to Realiti.
I live this album too, but I'd be very interested to know what your other top 5 contenders are.

*love

Yeah I assume she was thinking of "Go" (though to me that song actually feels pretty sad anyway!).

Other top 5 contenders are Julia Holter, Vince Staples, Carly Rae Jepsen, HEALTH, Years & Years, Dawn Richard.

Thanks - like the Staples a lot and hadn't got around to HEALTH yet.

Go is great imo but took 3-4 listens for me to really get into, maybe that hampered its chances

can we talk abt how "Easily" sounds like some underwater shimmery late 90's William Orbit production and how it's so wonderful?

how great wd the instrumental middle bit be as the soundtrack to like a water level in Super Mario 64

how great wd it be if Grimes re-scored the soundtrack to Super Mario 64

or just make this game
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/grimes%20only%20for%20n64.png

looks like a solid sequel to mischief makers

mischief makers' gameplay did have this great spacious melancholy feel

Just realized this will be one of the first years I'll have a compatible list with Tim F. Grimes, Jepsen, Staples and Holter are also on my list and I haven't heard the others. I loved HEALTH previous albums I guess it's time to check this one.

can we talk abt how "Easily" sounds like some underwater shimmery late 90's William Orbit production and how it's so wonderful?

― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), jueves 19 de noviembre de 2015 17:08 (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I think it was mentioned upthread that it sounds a lot like Madonna's Ray of Light. The song I'm actually reminded the most of is "what it feels like for a girl" which wasn't produced by Orbit but it was definitely influenced by him.

looks like a solid sequel to mischief makers

shake-shake

Really love this album, and I wonder how nobody is reminded to Xenomania from the 00s. "Artangels" especially is like a Girls Aloud song.

Yeah there's a strong Xenomania circa "Graffiti My Soul" vibe.

I'm also hopeful that "Artangels" (the song) spurs a revival of interest in EMF and Big Audio Dynamite.

ed was at the jukebox: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=18736

Ah, haven't seen it, thanks. Good to see the Grimes and the Susanne Sundfor song getting so much love there too.

BTW, did Claire really say that she wouldn't do producing for someone else? Because Grimes producing Nicola Roberts would be a dream collaboration.

I'm also hopeful that "Artangels" (the song) spurs a revival of interest in EMF and Big Audio Dynamite.

Well, it's my birthday #30 in two weeks and I'll surely be sneaking something off this album into the dj's set. Any suggestions on songs and what to pair them with?

"Kill V. Maim" with a Le Tigre-song from their last album?

you mean "this island" that was released 11 years ago. Unless they released a new album this year and I'm not aware of it. Le Tigre in general is a good fit and sounds great at parties.

I just googled for Le Tigre's discography and the only thing they've worked on ever since 'This Island' is production for this Christina Aguilera single feat. Peaches:

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

Which actually sounds like a Le Tigre song feat. Peaches. I can't hear Christina Aguilera anywhere.

Yeah, I meant This Island.

Well, it's my birthday #30 in two weeks and I'll surely be sneaking something off this album into the dj's set. Any suggestions on songs and what to pair them with?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), 20. november 2015 09:10 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The rhythm track from California reminds me of an indie version of Single Ladies. So those two?

Yeah there's a strong Xenomania circa "Graffiti My Soul" vibe.

I was going to say that a lot of this album reminded me of Girls Aloud (Kill v Maim especially is like the sort of kitchen sink 'oh fuck it why not?' banger that would occur 3/4 of the way through a GA album), but I was too sheepish to actually do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes,_California

Genius says California samples Pon de Replay. So mixing those two?

yeah, many songs remind of other pop/rnb hits of the last years.
"Venus Fly" has a "(Girls) Run the World" vibe.

Ah yes I knew there was a pon de replay sample. It isn't that obvious at first listen but could be mixed with any of the songs that used the sample.

silly article from the gawker biosphere: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/grimes-is-a-very-awkward-pop-star-which-makes-art-ange-1741376304

Here’s the second-best jam, “Realiti,” in slightly modified form—it first showed up in March as the teaser for another album Boucher very theatrically scrapped, because “it sucked.” (You get to love the theater of it all with her.)

wha?

there is not a pon de replay sample on california

silly article from the gawker biosphere

there is not a pon de replay sample on california

― james brooks,

As stated on her siriusXM takeover, “California” is a hate track towards the music website Pitchfork. This hate may be the result of various misinterpretations of her words, and Grimes has expressed her discontent in her tweets.

The beat of the song also samples Pon De Replay by Rihanna.

http://genius.com/Grimes-california-lyrics

Maybe you're thinking about Pon De Floor? Pon De Replay and California definitely have the same beat throughout. I'm not completely sure it's a sample but it's definitely the same beat. Only Grimes added the sound of something like a kicked bucket in there.

This is pon de replay.

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

In the grimes song it gets clear it's the same beat when she starts singing. 0:18 in California or so.

It's pretty much a variation on the Diwali Riddim so you can easily mix California with the other artists sampling Diwali:

Lumidee, Sean Paul, Rihanna, Brick and Lace....

it's easy to happen upon that beat when programming drums without consciously referencing anything in particular, especially when you're primed to respond to it having heard it in a bunch of different places

its not a sample, is the correct argument here

it does appear to be a conscious use of the same or a similar drum pattern imo

hey now genius is such a trustworthy source

i defer to songmeanings.net

i think if anyone's a trustworthy source here it's james

Lmao Moka you're literally talking to Grimes' bf.

Oh! Hahaha it's that James Brooks? Ok, sorry, in my defense I was saying it was a similar beat and I wasn't sure it was actually a sample. Tried looking for sources on the claim and couldn't find any other than that genius link.

So, maybe James could clear that up? Is it intentionally based on the Diwalli riddim?

sounds like a great question someone could ask her in an interview sometime

wow the suspense is killing me

I know it isn't I was just curious. Ok, not a sample got it.

i was serious though