Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Ok I couldn't resist. I assume the mixing is still being worked out. "So Heavy" in particular sounds like it needs some work done in there but it could sound really good.

Black Swan Blues is a nice surprise, she very rarely uses acoustic guitars as a base composition and it's also a very welcome variation in sound compared to the rest of the album.

from what I understand the leak is far from complete, not only in terms of songs but the mixing too

I ended up deleting it after a third listen. I don't like the current aesthetics of it for the most part, the whole sound she is going for in here is very outdated to my ears, it sounds to me like she's trying to beautify some of the worst musical trends of the 90's - but I recon it might improve with further mixing. Song I ended up liking the most is Black Swan Blues but it doesn't sound much like a Grimes song.

I don't know, it seems like a bit of mess tbh and I wouldn't be that surprised if it gets vaulted. I can kind of understand a bit of her previous frustration with it. There some good ideas in there but there's been so much work and time wasted on it that the simplest solution would be to vault it instead of trying to fix it and do something new. Or maybe release one first expecting it to get mixed reviews and then a second, better album a few months apart. It wouldn't be a bad marketing strategy tbh, let the critics tear you down and then lure them back in. Wasn't that the original plan? To do one for the label and another for her? Or am I misremembering how it went?

Was Turrican a Grimes fan?

omg that's the link. only threads with Turrican DNA can be opened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0kfH04U68

new single "so heavy i fell through the earth" is decent but feels more like a moody album track than an album opener or single?

miss anthropocene finally has a tracklist and a release date (feb 21) too

https://i.imgur.com/vE1AGZX.jpg

01 So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth (Art Mix)
02 Darkseid (Grimes & 潘PAN)
03 Delete Forever
04 Violence (Grimes & i_o)
05 4ÆM
06 New Gods
07 My Name is Dark
08 You’ll miss me when I’m not around
09 Before the fever
10 IDORU

new single "so heavy i fell through the earth" is decent but feels more like a moody album track than an album opener or single?

haha I was just thinking I wish she'd tack We Appreciate Power onto the record.

The deluxe version of the album includes WAP

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/534925843097714718/644893194684989488/image0.jpg

i like that cover

is the person burning off their breast?

Fourth World concept album??!?

is "adore u (beautiful game)" coming out? that was the song I did for the pre-cover album a year and a half ago

this is gonna be good, I'm excited now

i'd guess "adore u" is probably "IDORU"

well that’s also the Romaji for the Japanese rendering of “IDOL”

the leaked "adore"'s running time also matches "IDORU"

very excited to learn that the Moodles rendition of "That's What The Drugs Are For" is now THE official version.

xxp and a William Gibson book title

it took me ages to figure out which specific new age/downtempo song "so heavy" reminded me of but I've finally got it

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

(the runner-up was Schiller's "I've Seen It All"; unsurprisingly I really like the grimes single, despite the past few years of grimes)

I mean there’s been a noticeable trend of Enya-house music in the past decade and Grimes was doing variations on it even before this single. I don’t think this is Grimes following trends but rather continuing on a style she had explored previously.

oh, I'm not saying she's following trends, unless the leaked album (which I haven't heard) is full of idk billie eilish ripoffs

IDORU could also be referencing the William Gibson novel, which would be on brand with the concept of the album

oh goddamnit I missed mh's comment.

this is....fine? I like it better than most of her stuff but I'm still mystified as to what makes her so distinct from or so much more deserving of hype than loads of other acts working in a similar mode

like who?

Grimes thinks "live music is going to be obsolete soon" https://t.co/S9EnoA3fZM pic.twitter.com/No4Ei9c2CR

— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) November 20, 2019

says the voice of silicon fascist privilege https://t.co/rsn04V7AyV

— ZJ (@ZOLAJESUS) November 21, 2019

her reputation seems to have taken a bit of a hit

https://images.app.goo.gl/fjaU1BWo6eBVp2i16

ppl take her at face value a lot, anyway i enjoy her troll moves tbh

Sure. It's "troll moves" when SHE does it :/

get her ass ZJ

xpost -- and that's the difference between her and Amanda Palmer uh hold on

i believe about 5% of what grimes says about anything even her own intent, it's all pretty entertaining. anyway i like ZJ but grimes >>>>> ZJ

I've listened to and read enough conversations that have made a similar point but not in a value-neutral way
although, tbh, with such a dystopian album concept or w/e I guess the commentary is semi-implicit
then again, maybe the dystopia is good?

hmm!

I guess she's to be taken seriously not literally like Thiel said about Trump?

the kind of insight only young blood gets you

Troll moves are bullshit and annoying even when done by people omar little finds attractive

I apologise, that was uncalled for. I'll shut up now.

the bad cop/good cop lego head spins at 208 rotations per second

sorry 1/208

I’m slowly realizing I hate all this futuristic shit. I was a huge fan of her melancholy bedroom pop—huge huge fan—and also loved her foray into exuberant art pop, which seemed life affirming and artistically brave. But this all seems weird. If it’s sincere, she’s creepy now, and if it’s a troll, what’s the point?

Speaking my truth today. I‘m just an indie fan, i don’t want to be a cyborg.

i think she's having fun deliberately saying provocative nonsense that it's not immediately obvious how serious she is about (so trolling basically) after all the frustrations she's had with the media reporting her every word in the past

Maybe idk. She seems really fascinating with the singularity and these types of techno-utopian ideas. Maybe it’s all an artistic conceit but who knows.

yeah that's the thing, she's sincerely very into that stuff but it's not clear just how much. like she obviously didn't get experimental cornea replacement surgery but how much of the rest of this stuff is a bit?

I just know it’s alienating to me as a listener

but then again she doesn’t like pandering to audience expectations/desires, and that’s been consistent