Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

TLG are you doing a list this yr

no, i don't really listen to enough new music to warrant that

maybe a house/techno singles list but not an albums thing or anything like that

i did pick up a lot of reissues but reissues lists are pretty boring imo

the "kill v maim" / "artangels" / "easily" stretch in the middle is pretty undeniable

i can't believe my favorite song on Art Angels (Pin) isn't even in the top 10 most listened to songs from the album on the Spotify listening stats...inconceivable!

Is there some kind of sample clearance problem with "Butterfly"? Just got the LP today, and getting the digital copy (because Spotify is garbage, mobile Spotify doubly so) was alerted that "due to a publishing issue" it would be omitted from the download :(

I mean I've still got it on the actual record, it's just hard to carry around a turntable everywhere

It does have a sample.

http://youtu.be/E2ARRas4R4A

It might be difficult to get clearance on it.

It's weird, though, it's for sale digitally everywhere with (AFAICT) the sample intact. Not a huge deal, though, just grabbed it from slsk

Did anyone else notice that the physical CD of Art Angels includes the REALiTi demo as a bonus track?

Yep. Got it yesterday.

i love grimes so much and art angels has brightened my year more than anything else thank you claire

Love this album too, probably even more than visions, which I never fully connected with at the time. I have gone back to it after listening to Art Angels and it's definitely better Than I remembered.

yeah this is better than visions, even though "circumambient" is still my favorite grimes song

I don’t know who Grimes is, but I hope to find out in 2016.

visions is in my top 5 of the decade but, it has some clunkers. the singing in "eight" (production is cool, i like that synth that sounds like its saying SCHTROINGTHSCHTROINGTH) and some of the last stretch like "nightmusic". i listened to art angels the other day for the first time since post-release binge and it felt hollow at several moments that used to be euphoric. i loved it so much at first that i turned it off attributing my reaction to my mood, now i'm afraid to listen again D-:

xp

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/828259/26629230/1445890787463/grimes_rihanna_00.jpg

more like fart angels. I do like this, though

the art/fart pun is the pizza! of all art departments

going back to listen to visions the difference in production is so stark, almost makes me pine for a re-recorded version now that she's leveled up but I'd rather just have new songs especially given the tedious musing the two versions of realiti provoked

this album is absolutely my favourite of the year tho. I can't remember being as immediately and consistently besotted with a record. it is pure energy. most of the discourse around it seemed way off to me, but lindsay zoladz's line about it being superhero music for introverts deserves a ✓ and mb expansion. there's something v nourishing about it, a source of power I have been continually diving into. it's both hugely expansive in the range it covers and incredibly dense and fast-paced, she really charges through it – the percussion is the key secret ingredient giving it a radio/dj set energy – & the whole thing is such a blast, it's been something I've just played it over and over (and I'm not really the looping type). I maintain that righteous is the best description of the vox. the depth & layers are still there but they're also pushed right into the foreground which gives it an immediacy and all this wonderful high drama that wasn't possible in the older stuff. so much of it is pure exhilarating release; if you skipped at random there's a good chance you'd land in a moment of her holding some long vowel sound over the top of the roar of whatever enormous machine she happens to be piloting. this being balanced of course by her supreme poise elsewhere: coolly dispatching all-comers when she comes in on world princess pt 2, or that impossibly exquisite flattened singing on the verse of butterfly which butters you up perfectly for the chorus - which is the point on my first listen at which I threw my hands up and decided there was going to be no accounting for this album bc it's just too much.

I was content with my own untranslatable private obsession with this album, but I was chatting to my now-distant best friend I grew up with, who doesn't chat much about music and afaik had never expressed any prior knowledge of or interest in grimes, and he totally unprovoked started raving about it, and I felt that warm glow of satisfaction, which I have disavowed in the past as cheap adolescent tribalism, but which I think can be a legit recognition of that shared experience, knowing he was hearing it just right and feeling the same way. anyway this album just rules, I am so happy about it

good post

yes, I enjoyed reading this!

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so much of it is pure exhilarating release; if you skipped at random there's a good chance you'd land in a moment of her holding some long vowel sound over the top of the roar of whatever enormous machine she happens to be piloting.

beautifully put & otm

Big love for the wordless coos in "Belly of the Beat" which is just sheer beauty front to back. Haven't tired of any of it yet. Am cross-pollinating my daughters from Tay-Tay to Grimes, the other morning I caught one of them singing the hook from "California", WIN.

i haven't listened to this in a few weeks but I hear 'Pin' spinning in my head every day

ogmor: nourishing

yes, exactly, thank you for sharing

i love that there are two versions of realiti and that we have them both. imagine this was never a problem before music was recorded

I never thought the demo of realiti could be bettered, but the album version has grown on me a lot to the point where I think they are equally great in their own way.

I keep forgetting Janelle Monae is on this album. Stealthiest guest spot I've heard in awhile.

on the umpteenth listen on the bus this morning, i suddenly no longer feel there are pacing issues with the front-end of the album. for weeks i started with Flesh Without Blood as the first track and played from there, bouncing to California later. but now the first 4 tracks sound very natural together.

on another note, 'laughing and not being normal' is almost a ballsier statement of her MO than California as a diss song to industry/online culture/whatever. busting out such a beautiful violin-based composition with the ethereal opera vocals etc... stronger statement than the lyrics on California or maybe just a more subtle one.

anxious to see if she'll reschedule the cancelled DC & Philly dates any time soon...

I just noticed her twitter, did you see that nomar?

no??

grims!

this will be a good anecdote for him in later years

i'm sure it's coincidental.....?

link? is it about bowie?

given the timing and that we've already heard it was well-received I think it's unlikely to be a coincidence

Are you guys referring to the spelling of her name? I think she said that Grims is Grimes in French.

https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/683437639777697792

(I think that may be referring to what we’re talking about.)

hmm

imo any msg that ends haha wld not stand up in court

ciggy pixeldust ‏@MidasCharles
@arbutusrecords I heard a rumor that you guys might reissue Geidi Primes + Halfaxa vinyl in 2016, is this true?

Arbutus Records
‏@arbutusrecords
@MidasCharles stay tuned...

also grimes said on twitter the rights revert back to her on those albums in 9 years so if they don't reissue them (and it looks like they may) that's how long we'd wait. i have them on CD. feels inadequate!!

if you gotta have it on vinyl you gotta have it on vinyl but fuck arbutus records

pre-order http://arbutusrecords.com/?p=3740

lol

if you listen to her early stuff at a decent volume the amount of clipping is insane (i get it, she barely knew how to record at the time), i suppose a vinyl pressing would only make those issues worse.

I may as well hold off on giving arbutus money if they're dbags, I trust the intel. Ps does grimes have any shirts sized 4t, asking for a friend.

what you got against arbooties?