Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

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I think there’s been a lot of projecting w/the relatively few reviews calling this a failure, little discussion of her skills as a musician creating a melodic work and more about her skill in executing the concept album she mentioned which like i said before was more a jumping-off point wrt inspiration vs any explicitly told dystopian tale.

Interestingly I think like AA it comes off better as a whole, when listened to in one sitting. vs listening to the tracks as they were rolling out — they sounded cool but it works well as a piece. Also idk if it’s better than AA but I think it’s a more consistent record so maybe I’ll agree w D-40 eventually.

omar little, Thursday, 27 February 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link

chillwavey nostalgia-as-future-anxiety with the past being y2k era instead of vhs, and the future anxiety being apocalypse rather than joblessness

Holy shit I love this description thank you

octobeard, Thursday, 27 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link

Interestingly, in another forum someone took the leaked album and inverted the audio from the official release to see if there were adjustments made between then and now. Only You'll miss me when I'm not around had any changes.

octobeard, Thursday, 27 February 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link

a forgotten hyper corporate alt rock album downloaded from Kazaa at >128kpbs ca. 1998

^^this is the description I luv

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Thursday, 27 February 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link

maybe it's the grimes album for ppl who aren't particularly grimes fans? idk... none of her stuff other than "oblivian" has really grabbed me, but I'm so locked in to this.

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Thursday, 27 February 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrhTU9HkVQ

can anyone confirm if grimes likes anime

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 28 February 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link

almost as hard to determine as whether she's been into tumblr

mh, Friday, 28 February 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link

Having just listened to the new Caribou album, yeah, this sounds like shit. Still enjoy it though.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 28 February 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link

Is it just me or are her music videos very low effort this album cycle?

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 28 February 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link

Friendship with @Fantano CANCELED ! Friendship with @pitchfork RENEWED pic.twitter.com/DgKnFynbN4

— ༺GRIMES༻ 🤍 小仙女 (@Grimezsz) February 28, 2020



Cheap joke, but made me laugh.

☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 28 February 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link

ha ha, that’s awesome

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Friday, 28 February 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link

pic.twitter.com/Ed4HLucaXe

— maddie (@elfnymph) February 28, 2020

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 29 February 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link

That is how artists should respond to good/bad reviews xxpost

Tim F, Saturday, 29 February 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link

otm good stuff

brimstead, Saturday, 29 February 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link

Answering my own question but I wasn’t too far off with the “lesser effort” in her music videos for this cycle compared to previous albums, from an AMA he did in reddit a couple hours ago:

There was also a lot of stuff planned that didn't pan out due to my manager's passing (LAUREN FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!) and my pregnancy. We had planned a short film with Jodeb that was about all the Goddesses fighting but being pregnant got too crazy to make somethning like that, and a "modern demonology" with Heavy Metal Magazine that would be a coffee table book with all the Gods

Kinda sucks that her original vision for the visuals of the album got slashed away.

Here’s the AMA : https://www.reddit.com/r/popheads/comments/fb38tj/popheads_its_grimes_and_my_new_album_miss/

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 29 February 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link

the ama also has grimes talking about the mix:

For Miss A i think each song is a mini world/ personality whereas AA is more of a cohesive statement. So some songs just required specific personelle to finish. Like with So heavy, its such a wierd song production wise, i needed someone who could keep the bass heavy but bring the vocals up without losing verb and without muddying the mix, which is why Illangelo was the only option to mix. He's worked extednsively with the weeknd and i think a song like the hills is one of the only songs that has lots of reverb on the vocal and still bangs.

like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 1 March 2020 02:43 (four years ago) link

I know she’s just typing fast, but I genuinely dig the “personelle” neologism.

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Sunday, 1 March 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link

I listened to this one again yesterday and my new conclusion is that not all of the songs have an awful sound, just the ones I would actually listen to (delete forever, idoru). The songs that I don’t care much about don’t sound that bad like say, “you’ll miss me when I’m not around”, that one actually sounds good to me.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 1 March 2020 08:27 (four years ago) link

Do we know who’s working with her in each track? Illangelo is hit or miss to me but most of his work with the weeknd is great. Did that quote means he worked in the whole album or just on “so heavy”?

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 1 March 2020 08:38 (four years ago) link

Carlo “Illangelo” Montagnese is only credited as “mixer” on that particular track.

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link

I’ve had delete forever in my head all week, such a weird flat disturbing yet beautiful song. The pro tools sterilized banjo is affecting in a way hard to articulate

Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link

it is my song of the year so far

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link

I'm really getting into this album, it's full of hooks and it's not super long so I can listen to most of it in a single commute.

Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link

Yeah I was wrong about wanting those other mixes on the CD, it’s actually the perfect length.

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Sunday, 1 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link

I highly appreciate “we appreciate power” but she was correct in not including it on this imo.

omar little, Sunday, 1 March 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link

At first I was disappointed but the flow of the album is vv good and musically it doesn’t quite fit in.

omar little, Sunday, 1 March 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link

I’ve officially warmed up to “delete forever” again after listening to it on cheaper headphones. It still sounds a bit flat to my ears but it’s a good Grimes song regardless of how it sounds.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 2 March 2020 08:01 (four years ago) link

Just want to point out how clever it is that "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around" (poppiest song ever about suicide?) features gurgling, watery "You'll miss me when I'm down" vocals at the end -- musically expressing the "I'll tie my feet to rocks and drown" sentiment via the chopped 'n screwed chorus treatment so prevalent in recent pop hits.

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Monday, 2 March 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link

guYS i mIgHt kILl mYSeLf!!1

strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Monday, 2 March 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link

Oh, go soak yr head ;-)

Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Monday, 2 March 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link

“You’ll miss me when I’m not around“ has some good hooks though I think it probably is the least essential of the 10 tracks. which isn’t to say it’s not good just that I think the rest of the album is quite a bit better.

omar little, Monday, 2 March 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link

oh man, I think it's such a great jam!

("before the fever" is the least essential to me... kinda feels mainly like a "bridge" into "IDORU"?)

tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Monday, 2 March 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link

I think it’s a jam but maybe just a step below for me?

Idk though I usually have shifting opinions with strong albums like this which are dense w/quality cuts. Some rise above others in my estimation over time after previously having been slightly lesser.

omar little, Monday, 2 March 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link

I really loved “violence” and “so heavy I fell through the earth”, looking forward to hearing this

brimstead, Monday, 2 March 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link

After two listens I'd say there's a greater confidence here. Doesn't wash over you like some of the earlier stuff. Wish it really rocked more or had straight up perverse disco like "violence".

Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link

guYS i mIgHt kILl mYSeLf!!1

― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Monday, March 2, 2020 7:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

^^ unheimisch feeling of "uh oh, this post will not age well"

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link

Love suicide humor, but I guess she has it coming

omar little, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link

Accordingly, the earthiest musical moment on her new album, the strummed acoustic guitars on the track “Delete Forever” (which shares its bizarro-country vibes with 2015’s “California”) is not what it sounds like. “Actually, hilariously,” she says, “that guitar is from a sample pack that I chopped up.” She fakes it so real she’s beyond fake.

no wonder it sounds so off to me then

ufo, Thursday, 5 March 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link

Good album.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link

otm

omar little, Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link

no wonder it sounds so off to me then

― ufo, Thursday, March 5, 2020 4:50 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

all rap music does this fwiw

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link

OMG you guys, I drove by a huge billboard for this album on my way home 😂:

https://i.imgur.com/VqjKJkS_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Friday, 6 March 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link

I wish I’d been able to get a better shot of it, but you get the main idea. The album art is off to the side

tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Friday, 6 March 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link

I wonder if Grimes' & Katy Perry's babies are gonna grow up as BFF's.

Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Saturday, 7 March 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I really like Miss Anthropocene, far more that I expected to anyway.

It did give me a small smile to read this line from the Pitchfork review...

and in a relationship with a man whose real-time net worth literally jumped from $41 billion to $44.2 billion between drafts of this review.

...then click the link and see it's dropped to $30.5 billion since.

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 27 March 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link

I find it weird you correlate artistic merits with economics.

braised cod, Friday, 27 March 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link

I don't. Those were two separate thoughts. I enjoy Grimes a lot. I think her boyfriend is a pretentious asshole and I feel no sympathy for his fortune dwindling.

I find it weird you thought I explicitly said I connected the two.

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 27 March 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link

Sorry. I misunderstood your point.

braised cod, Friday, 27 March 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

Congratulations to Grimes and Elon Musk! Their newborn son, who Musk says is named X Æ A-12, arrived last night https://t.co/7eRjVMvul2

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) May 5, 2020

enochroot, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link

X Æ A-12 is a strong name. irish i think.

treeship., Tuesday, 5 May 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link


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