Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

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!

^

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?

m4rilis not a dbag imho

She doesn't work there anymore! she works for me now

oh, ha!

can i work for u

gr8080 back me up on this, there are some cuts on art angels that give me total balearic vibes. i was driving through l.a. on a recent sun kissed day and listening to this and it hit me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2EJMd7ZN7w

Marilyn Manson x Britney Spears

"you died" <3

psyched grimes is here to rehabilitate the aesthetic of the matrix: reloaded

literally thought u meant she had started posting

haha the Dark Souls 'You Died'

wasn't there a Janet Jackson video kind of like this from early 2000s? i seem to remember her in a cyberpunk cgi wonderland that reminded me of this...

this is def my favorite grimes song now

"california" has been in my head for days. i'm another listener that didn't like visions but love everything about art angels.

Yeah can I get a late pass on California please? Undeniable.

i think that song may blow up

It's probably my favorite from the album as well.

thanks for hooking me up with Realiti you guys, didn't like it the first time around but it stuck after sufficiently many tries.

it still sux